Associations to the word «Sigh»

Wiktionary

SIGH, noun. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
SIGH, noun. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
SIGH, noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
SIGH, 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.
SIGH, verb. (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
SIGH, verb. (intransitive) (transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
SIGH, verb. (intransitive) To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
SIGH, verb. (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
SIGH, verb. (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
SIGH, verb. (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
SIGH, interjection. An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
SIGH OF RELIEF, noun. A release of stress through breathing motions.
SIGH OF RELIEF, noun. (idiomatic) A reassurance or support, something that reduces stress from an arduous activity.

Dictionary definition

SIGH, noun. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
SIGH, noun. A sound like a person sighing; "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees".
SIGH, verb. Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly".
SIGH, verb. Utter with a sigh.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats