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noun

Sigh n.

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."

Figuratively, a manifestation of grief. "With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite."

verb

Sigh v. t.

To exhale (the breath) in sighs. "Never man sighed truer breath."

To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. "Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate."

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)

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.

Hence, to lament; to grieve. "He sighed deeply in his spirit."

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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Etymology of 'Sigh'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sigh" Quotes from Famous Books

... beamed in that eye. One shuddering sigh, and how cold, vacant, forceless, dead, lies the heap of clay! It is impossible to prevent the conviction that an invisible power has been liberated; that the flight of an animating principle has produced this awful change. Why may not that untraceable something which has gone still exist? ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... mountains, and the tower chimes, "See the Conquering Hero." But the Wilcoxes have no part in the place, nor in any place. It is not their names that recur in the parish register. It is not their ghosts that sigh among the alders at evening. They have swept into the valley and swept out of it, leaving a little dust ...

— Howards End • E. M. Forster

... the form with a fond, deep melancholy; Fakredeen and Baroni exchanged glances. Suddenly Tancred moved, heaved a deep sigh, and opened his dark eyes. The unnatural fire which had yesterday lit them up had fled. Calmly and thoughtfully he surveyed those around him, and then he said, ...

— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... coral tree: your robes of the orange dye, your person fresh from the bath. As rests your hand upon the stem of the Asoka, it seems to put forth a new and lovelier shoot. The unembodied god to-day will regret his disencumbered essence, and sigh to be material, that he might enjoy the touch of ...

— Tales from the Hindu Dramatists • R. N. Dutta

... he called her by the fondest names, he pressed her in his arms, as if he could so keep her in life. His mother tried to return his caresses, and to answer him; but her hands were cold, her voice was already gone. She could only press her lips against the forehead of her son, heave a sigh, and close ...

— An "Attic" Philosopher, Complete • Emile Souvestre

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