- Breathe out - Breathe with a rattling sound - Breathe with difficulty - To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling
sound, as persons affected with asthma. - A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult
respiration. - An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse
sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some
admixture of tone.