sigh | Lernwerd

Forms

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, frustration, or the like.
- He sighed over the lost opportunity.
- He sighed. It was going to be a long night.
- When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.
2.To lament; to grieve.
- He sighed deeply in his spirit.
3.To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
- Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
4.To make a sound like sighing.
- The winter winds are wearily sighing.
- And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
- The wind sighed in the trees.

1.a manifestation of grief; a lament.
2.A person who is bored.(slang)
3.A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
- 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.

1.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.

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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”).