Word Meanings - SIGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SIGH

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIGH)

• Languish
• Pine
• droop
• sink
• faint
• wither
• sigh
• decline

Related words: (words related to SIGH)

• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• WITHERED
  Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• WITHERS
  The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr.
• WITHERNAM
  A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in
• LANGUISH
  languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases.
• WITHER
  Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek.
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• LANGUISHNESS
  Languishment.
• WITHERBAND
  A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
• WITHERING
  Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.
• LANGUISHMENT
  1. The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak. 2. Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
• FAINTLING
  Timorous; feeble-minded. "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.
• FAINTISH
  Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.
• LANGUISHINGLY
  In a languishing manner.
• DECLINED
  Declinate.