Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
- Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
Verbit
- (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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | sighed | Imperfekti | sighed |
| Partisiipin preesens | sighing | Monikko | sighs |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | sighs | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | sigheth (vanhahtava) |