sighing  /s'ɑɪɪŋ/

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資料來源(1): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Sighing \Sigh"ing\, a.
     Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. ``Sighing millions.''
     --Cowper. -- {Sigh"ing*ly}, adv.

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Sigh \Sigh\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sighed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sighing}.] [OE. sighen, si?en; cf. also OE. siken, AS.
     s[=i]can, and OE. sighten, si?ten, sichten, AS. siccettan;
     all, perhaps, of imitative origin.]
     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 s[=i]th
           is still heard in England and among the illiterate in
           the United States.