<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound: Asthma caused him to wheeze.</li><li>to make a sound resembling difficult breathing: The old locomotive wheezed into the station.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a wheezing breath or sound.</li><li>an old and frequently used joke, saying, story, etc.</li></ul>