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sigh

/saɪ/ noun

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In Latin: suspiro Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about sigh at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
  2. A sound like a person sighing.
    she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees

verb

  1. Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily.
    She sighed sadly
  2. Utter with a sigh.

Origin

From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).

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