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1. Breathe with difficulty

1. Breathing with a husky or whistling sound
    
2. [Brit] A clever or amusing scheme or trick
   "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"

Derived forms: wheezing, wheezes, wheezed

Type of: breathe, breathing, external respiration, respiration, respire, scheme, strategy, suspire [literary], take a breath, ventilation

Encyclopedia: Wheeze