Sigh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit a similar sound: willows sighing in the wind.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel longing or grief; yearn: sighing for their lost youth.
  • v. To express with or as if with an audible exhalation.
  • v. Archaic To lament.
  • n. The act or sound of sighing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
  • n. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
  • n. A person who is bored.
  • v. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.
  • v. To lament; to grieve.
  • v. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • v. To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
  • v. To make a sound like sighing.
  • v. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  • v. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
  • v. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • interjection. An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
  • verb-intransitive. Hence, to lament; to grieve.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a sound like sighing.
  • v. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  • v. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • v. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
  • n. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
  • n. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan�ent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To heave or draw a sigh (see sigh, n.); make an audible inspiration and expiration indicative of some emotion; make an expressive respiratory sound: as, to sigh with grief or disappointment, or (less commonly) from satisfaction or the sense of relief.
  • Hence To experience an oppressive mental sensation; yearn or long, as from a special access of emotion or desire: often with for: as, to sigh for the good old times.
  • To make a sound resembling or suggestive of a sigh; sound with gentle or subdued mournfulness: said of things, especially the wind and its effects.
  • To emit, use, or act upon or in regard to with sighs or in sighing; utter, express, lament, etc., with sighing utterance or feeling: used poetically with much latitude: as, to sigh out one's love, pleasure, or grief.
  • n. A sudden involuntary deep-drawn inspiration of breath, followed by its more or less audible expiration, usually expressive of some emotion or sensation: as, a sigh of grief, chagrin, relief, pleasure, or fatigue.
  • See sie.
  • A Middle English preterit of see.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
  • v. utter with a sigh
  • n. a sound like a person sighing
  • n. an utterance made by exhaling audibly
  • Antonym
    laugh   
    Verb Form
    sighed    sighes    sighing    sighs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    breathe    respire    suspire    take a breath    emit    let out    let loose    utter    sound    utterance   
    Cross Reference
    long    sorrow    mourn   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grieve    lan�ent    breathe    suspiration    heigh-ho    sob    aspiration    mourn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai    Alai    Ally    Bi    Bligh    Bly    Brunei    Cai    Cy    Dai   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    groan    whisper    laugh    cry    gesture    breath    wail    tear    chuckle    shrug