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Sigh   /saɪ/   Listen
noun
Sigh  n.  
1.
A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing. "I could drive the boat with my sighs."
2.
Figuratively, a manifestation of grief. "With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite."


verb
Sigh  v. t.  
1.
To exhale (the breath) in sighs. "Never man sighed truer breath."
2.
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. "Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate."
3.
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs. "They... sighed forth proverbs." "The gentle swain... sighs back her grief."


Sigh  v. i.  (past & past part. sighed; pres. part. sighing)  
1.
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.
2.
Hence, to lament; to grieve. "He sighed deeply in his spirit."
3.
To make a sound like sighing. "And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge." "The winter winds are wearily sighing."





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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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