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WHEEZED

Definition: WHEEZED

WHEEZED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Wheeze

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WHEEZED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)


Photo Album: WHEEZED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

What is it? he wheezed.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Use in Literature: WHEEZED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The kettle rattled over the direct fire, rattled and wheezed.

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Usage Frequency: WHEEZED

"WHEEZED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "WHEEZED" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)92.86%2668,323
Lexical Verb (past participle)7.14%2245,945
                    Total100.00%28N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WHEEZED

Language Translations for "WHEEZED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

喘息 (respite, Wheeze, Wheezing). (various references)

   

German

  

keuchte (gasped, panted), gekeucht (gasped, panted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eezedwhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: WHEEZED

Misspellings

"WHEEZED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heeze, heezed, weeze, weezed, whease, whezzed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WHEEZED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-h-w-z"

-1 letter: heezed, wheeze.

-2 letters: heeze, hewed.

-3 letters: heed, weed, whee.

-4 letters: dee, dew, edh, ewe, hew, wed, wee, zed, zee.

-5 letters: de, ed, eh, he, we.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-h-w-z"
 

+4 letters: weatherized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WHEEZED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 48 45 45 5A 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "WHEEZED"


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