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sigher

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sigh

  [sahy]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
2. to yearn or long; pine.
3. to make a sound suggesting a sigh: sighing wind.
–verb (used with object)
4. to express or utter with a sigh.
5. to lament with sighing.
–noun
6. the act or sound of sighing.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME sighen, back formation from sihte sighed, past tense of ME siken, sichen, OE sīcan to sigh; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
sigher, noun
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sigh   (sī)   
v.   sighed, sigh·ing, sighs

v.   intr.

    1. To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.

    2. To emit a similar sound: willows sighing in the wind.

  2. To feel longing or grief; yearn: sighing for their lost youth.

v.   tr.

  1. To express with or as if with an audible exhalation.

  2. Archaic To lament.

n.  The act or sound of sighing.

[Middle English sighen, probably back-formation from sighte, past tense of siken, to sigh, from Old English sīcan.]
sigh'er n.
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