sigh

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

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, frustration, or the like.
2. To lament; to grieve.
3. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
4. To make a sound like sighing.
5. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
6. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

Noun

1. A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
2. a manifestation of grief; a lament.
3. (slang) A person who is bored.

Intj

An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

Concepten

zuchten

kreunen

zucht

smachten

verzuchting

hunkeren

reikhalzen

verlangen

zuchten naar

klacht

dwepen

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/saɪ/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).