sigh
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle English sihen, from Old English sīcan
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sigh (plural sighs)
- A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
- Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
Translations[edit]
a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, or grieved; the act of sighing
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figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament
(Cockney slang) a person who is bored
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Verb[edit]
sigh (third-person singular simple present sighs, present participle sighing, simple past and past participle sighed)
- (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, frustration, or the like.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, The China Governess[1]:
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
- When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.
- He sighed. It was going to be a long night.
- He sighed over the lost opportunity.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, The China Governess[1]:
- (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
- (intransitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
- (intransitive) To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
- He silently sighed for his lost youth.
- (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
- The tree sighed in the wind.
- (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
- She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
- sigh a note and sing a note
- (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
- "I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
- She sighed her frustrations.
- (transitive, archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Translations[edit]
to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it
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to lament; to grieve
to make a sound like sighing
to exhale in sighs
to utter sighs over
to express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs
to express frustration
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Interjection[edit]
sigh
- An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
- Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.
Translations[edit]
expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration or the like
