sigh
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an utterance made by exhaling audibly
Types & categories
- utterance hypernym
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Sense 2 verb
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
She sighed sadly
Types & categories
- breathe hypernym
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Sense 3 noun
a sound like a person sighing
she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
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Sense 4 verb
utter with a sigh
Types & categories
- let out hypernym
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | utterance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | breathe |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sigh |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | let out |