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SIGH, v.i. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual and immediately expel it; to suffer a single deep respiration. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark 8.

SIGH, v.t.

1. To lament; to mourn. Ages to come and men unborn Shall bless her name and sigh her fate.

2. To express by sighs. The gentle swain-sighs back her grief.

SIGH, n. A single deep respiration; a long breath; the inhaling of larger quantity of air than usual, and the sudden emission of it. This is an effort of nature to dilate the lungs and give vigor to the circulation of the blood, when the action of the heart and arteries is languid from grief, depression of spirits, weakness or want of exercise. Hence sighs are indications of grief of debility.



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SIGH, v.i. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual and immediately expel it; to suffer a single deep respiration. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark 8.

SIGH, v.t.

1. To lament; to mourn. Ages to come and men unborn Shall bless her name and sigh her fate.

2. To express by sighs. The gentle swain-sighs back her grief.

SIGH, n. A single deep respiration; a long breath; the inhaling of larger quantity of air than usual, and the sudden emission of it. This is an effort of nature to dilate the lungs and give vigor to the circulation of the blood, when the action of the heart and arteries is languid from grief, depression of spirits, weakness or want of exercise. Hence sighs are indications of grief of debility.


SIGH, n.

A single deep respiration; a long breath; the inhaling of a larger quantity of air than usual, and the sudden emission of it. This is an effort of nature to dilate the lungs and give vigor to the circulation of the blood, when the action of the heart and arteries is languid from grief depression of spirits, weakness or want of exercise. Hence sighs are indications of grief or debility.


SIGH, v.i. [Sax. sican, to sigh; D. zugt, a sigh; zugten, to sigh; Dan. sukker; Sw. sucka; allied perhaps to suck, a drawing in of the breath.]

To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual and immediately expel it; to suffer a deep single respiration. He sighed deeply in his spirit. – Mark viii.


SIGH, v.t.

  1. To lament; to mourn. Ages to come and men unborn / Shall bless her name and sigh her fate. – Prior.
  2. To express by sighs. The gentle swain … sighs back her grief. – Hoole.

Sigh
  1. 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, or the like.
  2. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

    Never man sighed truer breath. Shak.

  3. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

    I could drive the boat with my sighs. Shak.

  4. Hence, to lament; to grieve.

    He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.

  5. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

    Ages to come, and men unborn,
    Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.     Pior.

  6. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan(?)ent.

    With their sighs the air
    Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.     Milton.

  7. To make a sound like sighing.

    And the coming wind did roar more loud,
    And the sails did sigh like sedge.     Coleridge.

    The winter winds are wearily sighing. Tennyson.

    * An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as s***imacr]th is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States.

  8. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

    They . . . sighed forth proverbs. Shak.

    The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief. Hoole.

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Sigh

SIGH, verb intransitive To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual and immediately expel it; to suffer a single deep respiration. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark 8:12.

SIGH, verb transitive

1. To lament; to mourn. Ages to come and men unborn Shall bless her name and sigh her fate.

2. To express by sighs. The gentle swain-sighs back her grief.

SIGH, noun A single deep respiration; a long breath; the inhaling of larger quantity of air than usual, and the sudden emission of it. This is an effort of nature to dilate the lungs and give vigor to the circulation of the blood, when the action of the heart and arteries is languid from grief, depression of spirits, weakness or want of exercise. Hence sighs are indications of grief of debility.

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