SIGH
\sˈa͡ɪ], \sˈaɪ], \s_ˈaɪ]\
Definitions of SIGH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Hence, to lament; to grieve.
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To make a sound like sighing.
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To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
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To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
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To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
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A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
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Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lanent.
By Oddity Software
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Hence, to lament; to grieve.
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To make a sound like sighing.
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To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
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To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
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To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
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A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
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Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lanent.
By Noah Webster.
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To breathe deeply and audibly as a result of fatigue, sorrow, etc.; lament; to make a sound like sighing; as, the winds sigh; to yearn: with for; as, the nations sighed for peace.
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A deep, audible breath, expressing sorrow, anxiety, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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To inhale and respire with a long, deep, and audible breathing, as in grief: to sound like sighing.
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To express by sighs.
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A long, deep, audible respiration.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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