Usually means: Exhaled audibly to express emotion.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word sighed:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sighed: Merriam-Webster
  2. sighed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sighed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sighed, sighed: Wordnik
  5. sighed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sighed: Wiktionary
  7. sighed: Dictionary.com
  8. sighed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sighed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Sighed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sighed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sighed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sighed: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sighed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sighed: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sigh)

verb:  (intransitive) 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.
verb:  (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
verb:  (transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
verb:  (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
verb:  (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
noun:  A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
noun:  (figurative) a manifestation of grief; a lament.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
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