sigh
/saɪ/ verb B2- 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.
Plural sigh · He/she/it sighs · Past sighed · Past participle sighed · -ing form sighing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sigh
- He/she/it
- sighs
- Past
- sighed
- Past participle
- sighed
- -ing form
- sighing
From the library
“What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter “Ah, my dear!
“Two days wrong!” sighed the Hatter.
Alice sighed wearily.
“Yes, that’s it,” said the Hatter with a sigh: “it’s always tea-time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.”
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