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Sighing

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sigh  (s)
v. sighed, sigh·ing, sighs
v.intr.
1.
a. To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.
b. 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 scan.]
sigher n.
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Let them HEAR me chattering and sighing with winter-cold, all those poor squinting knaves around me
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Here it is sighing and murmuring as if its heart were broken.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
"And I have seen it," the girl retorted, with a note of grimness in her tone, "when it was a great deal more like the other place--stillness that seems almost to stifle you, grey mists that choke your breath and blot out everything; nothing but the gurgling of a little water, and the sighing--the most melancholy sighing you ever heard--of the wind in our ragged elms.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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