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wheezingly

wheezingly

9.1
With short, noisy breaths because it is hard to breathe
  • adverb
  • /ˈwiːzɪŋli/
translation icon : sibilantemente
  • She spoke wheezingly due to the cold air irritating her throat.

Examples

  • The dog was breathing wheezingly after running up the hill.

  • A crowded bus stopped and wheezingly knelt so Schiller could get on.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • After his asthma attack, he continued to cough wheezingly for several minutes.

Synonyms

wheezily
vswheezingly
1 7.8

With a short high sound when someone breathes hard

is identical in meaning but uses a different adverb ending
asthmatically
vswheezingly
8.2

In a way that sounds like wheezing and hard, short breathing

focuses only on a breathing sound not on broader medical symptoms

Antonyms

smoothly
173 2.3

In an easy, calm way without problems or embarrassment

How Wheezy

gaspingly
8.4
wheezingly
9.1
breathily
1 5.4
normally
884 1.0

Surface Forms

wheezingly positive

Morphology

wheezingly = wheezing (transparent) = wheeze + ing + ly

Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the recognizable adjective 'wheezing', yielding an adverb meaning 'in a wheezing manner'.

Etymology

Wheezingly comes from the sound word wheeze, which copies the noisy breath people make and means 'to breathe with difficulty'. So, to do something wheezingly is to do it while making that wheeze-like noise and struggling for air.