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Definition: Wheezing |
WheezingAdjective1. Relating to breathing with a whistling sound. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wheezing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Breathing with a rasp or whistling sound. It results from constriction or obstruction of the throat, pharynx, trachea or bronchi. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: WheezingSynonyms: asthmatic (adj), wheezy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wheezing |
| English words defined with "wheezing": asthma, asthma attack ♦ bronchial asthma. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wheezing": byssinosis ♦ cotton-mill fever ♦ Milk Hypersensitivity, mill fever ♦ Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN) | |
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 | Dog; exhausted; out-of-breath; panting; short-winded; spent; stertorous; wheezing; winded; tired; hot; running; run; walk. | | Digital; snoring; whistling; whistle; snore; wheeze; wheezing; saw logs; sawing logs; respiring; respire; sleeping; sleep; dozing; doze. |
| Coughing; wheeze; wheezing. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some people develop raspy breathing or wheezing. (references) | |
Frequent throat clearing, hoarseness, coughing or wheezing. (references) | ||
Periods of wheezing are likely to occur especially during or after colds or other respiratory tract infections. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wheezing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.33% of the time. "Wheezing" is used about 75 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.33% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wheezing | 67 |
dog wheezing | 7 |
cough wheezing | 5 |
cat wheezing | 4 |
cause wheezing | 4 |
coughing wheezing | 4 |
infant wheezing | 3 |
baby wheezing | 3 |
in infant wheezing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wheezing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 喘息 (respite, Wheeze, Wheezed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ronki (wheeze), ronchi (wheeze), rallen (wheeze), pibende respiration (wheeze), hvæsende respiration (wheeze), hvæsen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wheezing (wheeze), piepende ademhaling (wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vinkuva hengitys (wheeze), hengityksen vinkuna (wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sifflement respiratoire (wheeze), sifflement (whistle, whistles, whistling, whiz, whizz), siblement, respiration sifflante (wheeze), respiration bruyante (wheeze), halètement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | keuchenden, keuchend (gasping, panting, rasping, wheezy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναπνευστικός συριγμός (wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zihálás (gasp, gasping, panting, roaring, wheeze), asztmás lélegzés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | desah (sound of wheezing or huffing, swishing, wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | respirazione stertorosa (wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 喘ぎ (asthma, puffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あえぎ (asthma, puffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eezingwhay sibilos (wheeze), sibilo (cantation, hiss, ping, piping, sibilant, whistle, whistling), ruído respiratório anormal; ressono. (various references) hârâit (growl, wheeze), hârâialã. (various references) spìochan. (various references) teško disanje (wheeze), šištanje (hiss, hissing). (various references) sibilancia (wheeze), respiración sibilante (wheeze), respiración ruidosa (wheeze), disnea sibilante (wheeze). (various references) sự thở khò khè. (various references) gwich (creak, squeak, wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Wheezing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wheating, wheeding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wheezing" (pronounced wē"zing or hwē"zing) |
| 5 | w ē" z i ng | squeezing. |
| 4 | -ē" z i ng | appeasing, easing, freezing, pleasing, seizing, sneezing, teasing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, sensationalizing, sizing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, whizzing, womanizing. |
| 5 | -w ē" z i ng | squeezing. |
| 4 | -ē" z i ng | appeasing, easing, freezing, pleasing, seizing, sneezing, teasing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, sensationalizing, sizing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-i-n-w-z" | |
-1 letter: heezing. | |
-2 letters: hewing, whinge. | |
-3 letters: genie, hinge, neigh, newie, ngwee, weigh, wheen, whine, winze, wizen. | |
-4 letters: geez, gene, ghee, gien, hewn, nigh, ween, whee, when, whig, whin, whiz, wine, wing, zein, zing. | |
-5 letters: eng, ewe, gee, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hen, hew, hie, hin, nee, new, wee, wen, wig, win, wiz, zee, zig, zin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-i-n-w-z" | |
+4 letters: weatherizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 68 65 65 7A 69 6E 67 |
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