Meaning

6 senses
  1. (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.

    When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.

    He sighed. It was going to be a long night.

    seufzen

    вздыха́тьvzdyxátʹ, вздохну́тьvzdoxnútʹ

    зітха́тиzitxáty, зітхну́тиzitxnúty, здиха́тиzdyxáty

  2. (intransitive)To lament; to grieve.

    вздыха́тьvzdyxátʹ, вздохну́тьvzdoxnútʹ

    зітха́тиzitxáty

  3. (transitive)To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

    utter with a sigh

  4. (intransitive)To make a sound like sighing.

    The wind sighed in the trees.

    seufzen

    вздыха́тьvzdyxátʹ, вздохну́тьvzdoxnútʹ

  5. (transitive)To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

    She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.

    sigh a note and sing a note

    вздыха́тьvzdyxátʹ, вздохну́тьvzdoxnútʹ

  6. (transitive)To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

    "I guess I have no choice," she sighed.

    She sighed her frustrations.

    вздыха́тьvzdyxátʹ, вздохну́тьvzdoxnútʹ

Examples

208 sentences
  1. Tom sighed again.

    Том знову позіхнув. — deniko

    ruТом снова вздохнул. — marafon

    deTom seufzte erneut. — Felixjp

  2. She sighed over her unhappy fate.

    deSie seufzte ob ihres traurigen Schicksals. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom breathed a sigh of relief.

    ruТом вздохнул с облегчением. — marafon

  4. Tom let out a big sigh.

  5. Tom gave a sigh of relief.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it:
Русский
By meaning 1
to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it:

Origin

From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of sik

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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Forms

sighs, sighing, sighed, sighed
Base formsigh · to sigh
3rd person singularsighs
Present participlesighing
Past simplesighed
Past participlesighed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysigh
he, she, itsighs

Past simpleLesson

all personssighed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sighed
he, she, ithas sighed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sigh

Synonyms

36 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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