sighing

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sigh

(sī)

v. sighed, sigh·ing, sighs

v.intr.

a. To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.

b. To emit a similar sound: willows sighing in the wind.

2. To feel longing or grief; yearn: sighing for their lost youth.

v.tr.

1. To express with or as if with an audible exhalation.

2. Archaic To lament.

The act or sound of sighing.

[Middle English sighen, probably back-formation from sighte, past tense of siken, to sigh, from Old English sīcan.]

sigh′er n.

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sighing

(ˈsaɪɪŋ)

the act of drawing in and exhaling audibly a deep breath as an expression of weariness, despair, relief, etc

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Translations

sighing

[ˈsaɪɪŋ] N [of person] → suspiros mpl; [of wind] → susurro m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sighing

n (of person) → Seufzen nt; (of wind, = murmuring) → Säuseln nt; (= moaning) → Seufzen nt (liter)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sighing

[ˈsaɪɪŋ] n → sospiri mpl; (of wind) → sussurrio

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Let them HEAR me chattering and sighing with winter-cold, all those poor squinting knaves around me!

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They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.

`So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.

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The CoE, he said, could be discussed and he would play role to bring government and opposition closer for sighing of CoE,' he added.