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sigh verb [ sʌɪ ]

• emit a long, deep audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.
• "Harry sank into a chair and sighed with relief"
Similar: breathe out, exhale, groan, moan, suspire,

sigh noun

• a long, deep audible exhalation expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.
• "she let out a long sigh of despair"
Origin: Middle English (as a verb): probably a back-formation from sighte, past tense of siche, sike, from Old English sīcan .


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