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The sound that you make when you exhale loudly to show frustration, boredom, or relief is called a sigh. No matter how much you sigh during your family's annual car trip to the Grand Canyon, your dad won't drive any faster.

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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.

Noun
an utterance made by exhaling audibly

Noun
a sound like a person sighing; "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"

Verb
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly"

Verb
utter with a sigh

v. i.
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.

v. i.
Hence, to lament; to grieve.

v. i.
To make a sound like sighing.

v. t.
To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

v. t.
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

v. t.
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

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

v. i.
Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

Sigh

Sigh , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sighed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sighing.] [OE. sighen, sien; cf. also OE. siken, AS. s'c6can, and OE. sighten, siten, sichten, AS. siccettan; all, perhaps, of imitative origin.] 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. Hence, to lament; to grieve.

He sighed deeply in his spirit.

3. To make a sound like sighing.

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

The winter winds are wearily sighing.

&hand; An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as s'c6th is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States.

Sigh

Sigh, v. t. 1. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

Never man sighed truer breath.

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

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

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

They . . . sighed forth proverbs.

The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief.

Sigh

Sigh, n. [OE. sigh; cf. OE. sik. See Sigh, v. i.] 1. 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.

2. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lanent.

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

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.

To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

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

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Usage Examples

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.