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sigh

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1. sigh - Noun

2. sigh - Verb

3. sigh - Interjection

Meaning

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.

Hence, to lament; to grieve.

To make a sound like sighing.

To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" Sydney J. Harris

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. Karl Marx

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

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. William Shakespeare

Take gifts with a sigh because most men give in order to be paid. Irish Proverb

Is like the sigh of a bedbug. Finnish Proverb

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