SIGH

sigh. Sigh, v.i. to express, grief with the breath, to lament

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Sigh (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sighed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sighing.] [[OE. sighen, si�en; cf. also OE. siken, AS. sīcan, and OE. sighten, si�ten, sichten, AS. siccettan; all, perhaps, of imitative origin.]] 1. 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. 2. Hence, to lament; to grieve.
He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12. 3. 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. ☞ An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as sīth is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States.