How to pronounce “sigh”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (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.
• (transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
• (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.
• [Noun]
• A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
• (figurative) a manifestation of grief; a lament.
• (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
• [Interjection]
• An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

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Similar Sounds

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