Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sigh \Sigh\, n. [OE. sigh; cf. OE. sik. See {Sigh}, v. i.]
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?ent.
With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from
hearts contrite. --Milton.
Sigh \Sigh\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sighed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sighing}.] [OE. sighen, si?en; cf. also OE. siken, AS.
s[=i]can, and OE. sighten, si?ten, sichten, AS. siccettan;
all, perhaps, of imitative origin.]
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 s[=i]th
is still heard in England and among the illiterate in
the United States.
Sigh \Sigh\, v. t.
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.
Source : WordNet®
sigh
n 1: an utterance made by exhaling audibly [syn: {suspiration}]
2: a sound like a person sighing; "she heard the sigh of the
wind in the trees"
sigh
v 1: heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She
sighed sadly" [syn: {suspire}]
2: utter with a sigh