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Sigh   /saɪ/   Listen
Sigh

noun
1.
An utterance made by exhaling audibly.  Synonym: suspiration.
2.
A sound like a person sighing.
verb
(past & past part. sighed; pres. part. sighing)
1.
Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily.  Synonym: suspire.
2.
Utter with a sigh.





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"Sigh" Quotes from Famous Books



... address, and let her know where she could acquaint him with her further movements, and the actual date of her return to the Manor House. That, too, was tangible and real,—that small piece of white pasteboard. And, then, a little movement beside him, and a long quivering sigh of content brought back to him the most tangible thing of all—Josephus. Josephus, who was sleeping the sleep of the contented, just after a frenzied and ...
— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore
... his chair and trotted up and down the room a moment. Then he carefully adjusted his spectacles, took a long look at Patsy's face, and heaved a deep sigh of resignation. ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross • Edith Van Dyne
... with a little sigh, as though he were relieved at the turn the conversation was taking. "I came to know him through—er—circumstances, and exactly what they were I cannot for the moment remember. I had a lot to do with him. He did ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... evening's chilly star Above his native vale afar; A moment on the horizon's bar It hung,—then sank as with a sigh: And there the crescent moon went by, An empty ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various
... for some moments without a word, but finally, with a sigh drawn from the very toes of his boots, ...
— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin


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