sigh 
sigh (sī)
intransitive verb
- to take in and let out a long, deep, audible breath, esp. in expressing sorrow, relief, fatigue, longing, etc.
- to make a sound like that of a sigh trees sighing in the wind
- to feel longing or grief; yearn or lament (for)
Etymology: ME sighen, back-form. < sihten, pt. of siken < OE sican, to sigh: prob. echoic
transitive verb
- to express with a sigh
- to spend in sighing to sigh the day away
- Rare to lament with sighing
noun
the act or sound of sighing
sigh
n.
Converse of object
- breathe: We cannot breathe a sigh of relief yet, the BT's fate is still hanging the air in some parts of the country.
- heave: However, borrowers can finally heave a sigh of relief.
- utter: Tip's eyes were round and wondering, and the Saw-Horse uttered a sigh and turned away its head.
- hear: Hear ou sighs, pour on us your grace, King of Kings, that we may serve you with joy forever.
Adjective modifier
- weary: Imagine one of your team sits down across your desk and with a weary sigh begins to outline the latest problem.
- collective: I breath a collective sigh of relief for all people pleading for network security.
- audible: The accompanying police breathed audible sighs of relief at the disciplined behavior.
- deep: Then fetching a deep sigh from the bottom of his heart, " Alas!
- huge: Oulton breathed a huge sigh of relief, for the previous over Taylor had clean bowled the Aussie with a no ball.
- gentle: But never did she go without Mr. Woodhouse's giving a gentle sigh, and saying, " Ah, poor Miss Taylor!
Modifying Another Word
- softly: Jolen sighs softly - Jolen rises fluidly, dropping random bits of his armor.
- deeply: Mark says that Jesus sighed deeply in his Spirit or to himself.
- sadly: Julian sighed sadly, the weight of thousands of years of memory bearing down up on him.
Noun used with modifier
- I: A remake of an old classic game drops onto my desk and I sigh languidly.
Preposition: in
- relief: Sephar sighs in relief, " No, no others, blessed be.
Preposition: of
- relief: We cannot breathe a sigh of relief yet, the BT's fate is still hanging the air in some parts of the country.
- contentment: Consider things like: Having servants And Mrs Miniver, with a little sigh of contentment, rang for tea.
- disappointment: This time he only got it three feet away, and there was a general sigh of disappointment.
- pleasure: There are no rough edges, nothing to interrupt the eye - just a long sigh of pleasure.
Preposition: with
- relief: Just as he sighed with relief the stallion's footing slipped.
The Bishop gave vent to a long-drawn sigh. 'Did it ever occur to you to wonder why God created women?' he asked.'It's the one thing that tempts me at times to doubt His infinite goodness and wisdom.'
Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, not spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.
Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
I struck the board, and cried,'No more. I will abroad.' What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
Suddenlya puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still nightöthe first sigh of the east on my face.
I often sigh still for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom of the fish and reptile.
She's private to herself, and best of knowledge Whom she will make so happy as to sigh for.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iö I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
But when I plead, she bids me play my part, And when I weep, she says tears are but water: And when I sigh, she says I know the art, And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.
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