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- sigh for
sigh for
sigh for someone
to release a deep breath, indicating anxiety about one's emotional attachment for someone. Dave spent a lot of his time sighing for Laura, on whom he had a crush. Laura has been sighing for some as-yet-unnamed young man.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Qasim | | KAH:-sim (Arabic) | Arabic, Urdu |
Carpus | | KAHR-pəs (English) | Biblical, Biblical Latin |
Marciana | | - | Ancient Roman, Portuguese (Brazilian) |
Andrea | | ['ændriə] | |
Ermintrude | | - | English (Archaic) |
JaŠA | | - | Slovene |