sigh
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: sighs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sighing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sighest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: sighedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sighs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sigheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: sigh
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: sighing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sighed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sighs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.’
gloss: To lament; to grieve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He sighed deeply in his spirit.
gloss: To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
The lassie had grace given her to refuse, but with a woeful heart, and Heriotside rode off in black discontent, leaving poor Ailie to sigh her love. He came back the next day and the next, but aye he got the same answer.
gloss: To make a sound like sighing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The wind sighed in the trees.
And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
The winter winds are wearily sighing.
gloss: To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
sigh a note and sing a note
She sighed her relief when she found her missing toddler.
Never man sighed truer breath.
gloss: To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
She sighed her frustrations.
They […] sighed forth proverbs.
The gentle swain […] sighs back her grief.
gloss: A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
pos: noun
examples: To Pollyanna the air was all the more stifling after that cool breath of the out of doors; but she did not complain. She only drew a long quivering sigh.
gloss: a manifestation of grief; a lament.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A person who is bored.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
gloss: An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
pos: intj
examples: Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.
Derived words: besigh
outsigh
sigher
le sigh
sighful
sighless
sighlike
sigh of relief
yawn-sigh
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