sigh
suomi-englanti sanakirjasigh englannista suomeksi
huokailu
huoata, huoahtaa
huokailla
huokaus, huoahdus, huokaisu
sigh englanniksi
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, frustration, or the like.
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(RQ:Allingham China Governess) ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
(RQ:KJV)
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To make a sound like sighing.
(RQ:Wordsworth Coleridge Lyrical Ballads)
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1833)
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus) sighed forth proverbs.
{{quote-text|en|year=1763|translator=John Hoole|title=Jerusalem Delivered|author=Torquato Tasso
A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
(RQ:Porter Pollyanna)
A person who is bored.
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.