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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sigh/sʌɪ/
▶noun
  • 1 a long, deep, audible exhalation expressing sadness, tiredness, relief, etc.
  • 2 a sound resembling this.
▶verb
  • 1 emit a sigh.
  • 2 (sigh for) literary yearn for.
– origin ME (as v.): prob. a back-form. from sighte, past tense of siche, sike, from OE sīcan.



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