Sigh v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sighed p. pr. & vb. n. Sighing.]
  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, or the like.
  2. Hence, to lament; to grieve.
     He sighed deeply in his spirit.   --Mark viii. 12.
  3. To make a sound like sighing.
  And the coming wind did roar more loud,
  And the sails did sigh like sedge.   --Coleridge.
     The winter winds are wearily sighing.   --Tennyson.
  Note: ☞ An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as sīth is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States.