sigh

sigh is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. Hence, to lament; to grieve.
3. intransitive verb. To make a sound like sighing.
4. transitive verb. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
5. transitive verb. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
6. transitive verb. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
7. intransitive verb. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
8. intransitive verb. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
9. noun. an utterance made by exhaling audibly

   Synonyms: suspiration

10. noun. a sound like a person sighing

    "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"

11. verb. heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily

    "She sighed sadly"

    Synonyms: suspire

12. verb. utter with a sigh

Synonyms

suspiration, suspire

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sigh:

ghis, gish

Common word forms

sighs, sighed, sigher, sighful, sighing, sighless

Words from these letters

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