sigh
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)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, frustration, or the like.
When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.
He sighed. It was going to be a long night.
He sighed over the lost opportunity.
Đồng nghĩa: suspire, sithe
- 2.
(intransitive)To lament; to grieve.
Đồng nghĩa: sithe, yearn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven, bleed, lament, moan, mourn, remorse, repent, regret, rue, sigh, sorrow, wayment, yearn
- 3.
(transitive)To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Đồng nghĩa: grieve, lament, sithe, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, bewail, beweep, condole, deplore, elegize, grieve, grieven, keen, lament, mean, mourn, pine, repent, sigh, sorrow, wail, wayment
- 4.
(intransitive)To make a sound like sighing.
The wind sighed in the trees.
Đồng nghĩa: sithe
- 5.
(transitive)To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
sigh a note and sing a note
She sighed her relief when she found her missing toddler.
Đồng nghĩa: sithe
- 6.
(transitive)To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
"I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
She sighed her frustrations.
Đồng nghĩa: sithe
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
- 2.
(figuratively)(figurative) a manifestation of grief; a lament.
- 3.
(Cockney, slang)(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
interjection
interjection- 1.
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English sighen (to sigh), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (to pour out).