Exhale vs Sigh - What's the difference?
exhale | sigh |
To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
* 2008 , Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris , John Murray 2009, p. 9:
To expel (something) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).
* Alexander Pope
To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.
A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}} To lament; to grieve.
* Bible, Mark viii. 12
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
To make a sound like sighing.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
* Shakespeare
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
* Shakespeare
* Hoole
(archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
* Prior
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
In intransitive terms the difference between exhale and sigh
is that exhale is to pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge while sigh is to make a sound like sighing.In transitive terms the difference between exhale and sigh
is that exhale is to draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour while sigh is to express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.As a noun sigh is
a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.As an interjection sigh is
an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.exhale
English
Verb
(exhal)- Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.
- The earth exhales''' vapor; marshes '''exhale noxious effluvia.
- Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales .
- The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
Synonyms
* outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic) * outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)Antonyms
* inbreathe, breathe in, inhale * inbreathe, breathe in, inspireDerived terms
* exhalationExternal links
* * * ----sigh
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed .
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
- He sighed deeply in his spirit.
- And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
- The winter winds are wearily sighing .
- Never man sighed truer breath.
- They sighed forth proverbs.
- The gentle swain sighs back her grief.
- Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
Interjection
(en interjection)- Sigh , I'm so bored at work today.