sigh.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.
He sighed. It was going to be a long night.
To lament; to grieve.
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
To make a sound like sighing.
The wind sighed in the trees.
To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
sigh a note and sing a note
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
"I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
She sighed her frustrations.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).
A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
a manifestation of grief; a lament.
A person who is bored.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sighe (“sigh”), from sighen (“to sigh”) (see ).
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sighe (“sigh”), from sighen (“to sigh”) (see ).
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