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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"t": "to hiss"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"2": "ine-pro",
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},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).",
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{
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
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"present"
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"past"
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)",
"text": "If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed."
}
],
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"To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma."
],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hriptjá",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "хриптя́"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "喘氣"
},
{
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"roman": "chuǎnqì",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "喘气"
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"roman": "chuǎnxī",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "喘息"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "sípat"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "pískat"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "hvæse"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "hengittää pihisten"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "pihistä"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "korista"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "respirer bruyamment"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "avoir du mal à respirer"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "keuchen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "röcheln"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "schnaufen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "schwer atmen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "pfeifend atmen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"tags": [
"regional"
],
"word": "giemen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"tags": [
"Alemannic-German"
],
"word": "charre"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "zihál"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "liheg"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "sípol"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "ansimare"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "rantolare"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "anelare"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "boccheggiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "ansare"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "ngae"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "ngaengae"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "se",
"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "skarkit"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "charczeć"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "chrypieć"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "rzęzić"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "sapać"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xripétʹ",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "хрипе́ть"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "hirsel"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "wheezle"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "dèan pìochan"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "jadear"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "kikna"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "umagahas"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xrypity",
"sense": "breathe hard",
"word": "хрипіти"
}
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1932, Herbert George Jenkins, Bindle Omnibus, page 408",
"text": "Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Robert Boston, A Thorn for the Flesh, page 30",
"text": "He began to wheeze again, and tears rolled down his furrowed cheeks. Nate was laughing, too, infected by Check's contagious wheezing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Elizabeth Oldfield, Beware of Married Men, page 47",
"text": "Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Richard S. Wheeler, The Two Medicine River, page 221",
"text": "The man wheezed, his laughter like an accordion whine.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing."
],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing."
],
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"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 184",
"text": "\"Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, J. P. White, Every Boat Turns South, page 112",
"text": "One boy in a black tuxedo and red shoes plays a wheezing accordion like a roadside undertaker.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing."
],
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}
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"ipa": "/ʍiːz/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wiːz/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːz"
},
{
"homophone": "wees"
},
{
"homophone": "Wiis (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
},
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"word": "wheeze rate"
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"roman": "hriptene",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
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"neuter"
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"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
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"roman": "chuǎnxī",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "喘息"
},
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
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"word": "sípání"
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"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
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"neuter"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "pihinä"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "coarse sound",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "kähinä"
},
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"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Keuchen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Schnaufen"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Röcheln"
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{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "zihálás"
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{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "lihegés"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "sípolás"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "keh"
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{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "mengi"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cársán"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rantolo"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anelito"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zeimei",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "喘鳴"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "ngae"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "ngoio"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "ngō"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "tīmohu"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xes-xes",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "خس خس"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "charczenie"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "sapanie"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sibilo"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xrip",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хрип"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xripénije",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "хрипе́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sipenije",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сипение"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "hirsel"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pìochan"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "hripanje"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "stridor"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hropac"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "silbido"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sibilancia"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estertor sibilante"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "agahas"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 2 0 5",
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ràntego"
}
]
},
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Comedy",
"orig": "en:Comedy",
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"Drama",
"Theater",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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},
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],
"glosses": [
"An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the \"stage whisper\"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone."
],
"id": "en-wheeze-en-noun-6vZBOWru",
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],
[
"exaggerate",
"exaggerate"
],
[
"hoarse",
"hoarse"
],
[
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"stage whisper"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "keh"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "mengi"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cársán"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rantolo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anelito"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zeimei",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "喘鳴"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "ngae"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "ngoio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "ngō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "tīmohu"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xes-xes",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "خس خس"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "charczenie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sapanie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sibilo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xrip",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хрип"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xripénije",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "хрипе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sipenije",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сипение"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "hirsel"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pìochan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "hripanje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "stridor"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hropac"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "silbido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sibilancia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estertor sibilante"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"word": "agahas"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ràntego"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "exaggerated whisper",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sípání"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "exaggerated whisper",
"word": "teatterikuiskaus"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sceničeskij šópot",
"sense": "exaggerated whisper",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сценический шёпот"
}
],
"word": "wheeze"
}
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