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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



... sigh, and with a gesture of affright sought to brush the horrid thing away while murmuring: ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... system of mildness and moderation, and, situated as this country is at present, even the affectation of virtue is captivating.— As far as they dare, the people are partial to them: bending beneath the weight of a sanguinary and turbulent despotism, if they sigh not for freedom, they do for repose; and the harassed mind, bereft of its own energy, looks up with indolent hope for relief from a change of factions. They forget that Danton is actuated by ambitious jealousy, that Camille Desmoulins is hacknied in ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... in a tub, But, "Give me more!" he cried; And then he drew a heavy sigh, And laid him ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... Keeper answered with a deep sigh, "That these mutations were no new sights in Scotland, and had been witnessed long before the time of the satirical author he had quoted. It was many a long year," he said, "since Fordun had quoted as an ancient proverb, 'Neque dives, neque ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... still your life—ah! change the word— Life is as transient as th' inconstant's sigh; Say rather I'm your soul, more just that name, For, like the soul, my love can ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore


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