Synonyms of the word sigh


SIGHBREATHE - EMIT - RESPIRE - SOUND - SUSPIRATION - SUSPIRE - UTTER - UTTERANCE - VOCALIZATION

sigh

  • n. A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved;…
  • n. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
  • n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
  • v. (intransitive) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep…
  • v. (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • v. (intransitive) To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
  • v. (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  • v. (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
  • interj. An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written…

breathe

  • v. (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen…
  • v. (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
  • v. (transitive) To use (a gas) to sustain life.
  • v. (intransitive) Figuratively, to live.
  • v. (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
  • v. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
  • v. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
  • v. (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
  • v. (transitive) To whisper quietly.
  • v. (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
  • v. (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.

emit

  • v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

respire

  • v. (intransitive) To breathe in and out; to engage in the process of respiration.
  • v. (intransitive) To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
  • v. (transitive) To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe.
  • n. (obsolete) Rest, respite.

sound

  • adj. Healthy.
  • adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
  • adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
  • adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
  • adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
  • n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
  • n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
  • n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  • v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
  • v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
  • n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
  • n. The air bladder of a fish.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  • v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
  • v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
  • n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
  • n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

suspiration

  • n. The act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained).

suspire

  • v. To breathe.
  • v. To exhale.
  • v. To sigh.
  • n. (obsolete) A long, deep breath; a sigh.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

utterance

  • n. An act of uttering.
  • n. Something spoken.
  • n. The ability to speak.
  • n. Manner of speaking.
  • n. (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
  • n. (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
  • n. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

vocalization

  • n. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
  • n. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
  • n. The use of speech to express an idea.
  • n. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
  • n. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are…
  • n. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds…

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