Sigh

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.
  • intransitive verb. To emit a similar sound.
  • intransitive verb. To feel longing or grief; yearn.
  • intransitive verb. To express with or as if with an audible exhalation.
  • intransitive verb. To lament.
  • noun. The act or sound of sighing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See sie.
  • A Middle English preterit of see.
  • 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. Hence, to lament; to grieve.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sound like sighing.
  • transitive verb. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  • transitive verb. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • transitive verb. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
  • noun. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
  • noun. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan�ent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
  • noun. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
  • noun. A person who is bored.
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To lament; to grieve.
  • verb. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • verb. To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
  • verb. To make a sound like sighing.
  • verb. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  • verb. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
  • verb. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
  • verb. utter with a sigh
  • noun. a sound like a person sighing
  • noun. an utterance made by exhaling audibly
  • Word Usage
    "Im gonna have to sigh here... *sigh*... because as usual, New York's there and it's tiny, ignored neighbor, New Jersey, is not..."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    laugh  
    cross-reference
    long  mourn  sorrow  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai  Alai  Ally  Bi  Bligh  
    Same Context
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    advise  agony  astonishment  black  break  
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    verb-form
    sighed  sighes  sighing  sighs