(intransitive) 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.
(intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
(intransitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
(intransitive) To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
(intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
(transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
(transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
(transitive, archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Huudahdukset
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
Esimerkit
She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.
Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
The gentle swain [...] sighs back her grief.
They [...] sighed forth proverbs.
She sighed her frustrations.
"I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
Never man sighed truer breath.
sigh a note and sing a note
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.’
The winter winds are wearily sighing.
And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
He silently sighed for his lost youth.
He sighed deeply in his spirit.
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.