ether vs wheeze

ether

noun
  • The medium breathed by human beings; the air. 

  • The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. 

  • Starting fluid. 

  • Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. 

  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. 

  • The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. 

  • Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). 

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

wheeze

noun
  • 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"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone. 

  • Something very humorous or laughable. 

  • An ulterior scheme or plan. 

  • A sound that resembles a human wheezing. 

verb
  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. 

  • To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing. 

  • To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing. 

How often have the words ether and wheeze occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )