WordWeight : Weighing the Words

Pronunciation : Sigh
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. sighen, si; cf. also OE. siken, AS. sican, and OE. sighten, si, sichten, AS. siccettan; all, perhaps, of imitative origin.]
Definition : 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. Mark viii. 12.

3. 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.

Note: An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as sith is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States.

i. [imp. & p. p. Sighed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sighing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Sigh
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To exhale (the breath) in sighs. Never man sighed truer breath. Shak.

2. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate. Pior.

3. 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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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Sigh
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. sigh; cf. OE. sik. See Sigh, v. i.]
Definition : 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. Shak.

2. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite. Milton.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913