wheezing

6.1

A high whistling or rough sound that you make when breathing is hard

adjective
/ˈwiːzɪŋ/

: sibilante

After running for a while, I noticed a wheezing sound coming from my chest when I breathed.

One of the most common things we hear is wheezing sounds like this.

Examples

There's the constant beeping of four machines, the wheezing of respirators, the alarms that go off whenever your condition abruptly worsens.
So that's soft wheezing of small amounts of air whistling through tiny Airways in an asthmatic attack.
It's it's wheezing from the start, like a wheeze in the chest.
He was still had breaths in him and I could hear the wheezing and hear him fighting.
The dog's wheezing indicated that it might be having trouble breathing.
During her asthma attack, she was wheezing heavily and needed her inhaler.

Synonyms

to wheeze

vswheezing

19 5.1

To breathe with a high, whistling sound because the airways are tight

is the continuous sound or state form rather than the action verb

Antonyms

to breathe easy

Informal

5 3.4

To feel relaxed and relieved after a worrying time

How Breathless

wheezing

6.1

gaspy

8.1

panting

203 2.6

eupnea

Specialized

9.9

Surface Forms

wheezing positive

Morphology

wheezing = wheeze (transparent) = wheeze + ing

Formed from the verb 'wheeze' with the participial/adjectival suffix '-ing', so the meaning 'making a wheeze sound' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word wheezing comes from an old English sound word wheeze that copied the sharp noise of hard breathing, like a small 'whistle' or 'rattle' in the chest. So, wheezing means making that whistling or rattling sound when you have trouble breathing.