wheeze
verb (used without object)
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am wheezing like an old wife's bellows, nigh disinherited of my birthright, the free quaffing o' the air.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby