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sighing |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sighing \Sigh"ing\, a. Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. ``Sighing millions.'' --Cowper. -- {Sigh"ing*ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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