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Continuous, high-pitched musical sounds similar to a whistle

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  • Verb (used without object) : Asthma caused him to wheeze. ,The old locomotive wheezed into the station
  • His breath came in short wheezes; a senatorial roll of adipose tissue denied a fashionable set to his upturned coat collar.
  • Not everything that 'wheezes' is asthma, and not every asthmatic is 'wheezing'
  • "Let's get to the Gilded Ram," wheezes the trader.
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