soughed

verb

past tense of sough
as in sighed
to take in and let out a deep audible breath or to make a similar sound all night long the patient was soughing in her sleep

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  1. sighed
  2. breathed
  3. huffed
  4. gasped
Verb
  • Yet another review of EAR audio found that people who sighed frequently were not necessarily burdened by negative emotions.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
  • Rabbi Eli Schlanger leaned back in his chair, sighed and grinned like a kid.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of sighed
Verb
  • Down 7-5 in the seventh, a two-out single by Michael Harris II breathed some life into the Braves’ offense, which had been dormant for the previous 13 plate appearances.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 18 July 2026
  • Smoke particles are small enough to be breathed deeply into lungs and enter the bloodstream.
    — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 14 July 2026
Definition of breathed
Verb
  • Meanwhile in Boston, England huffed and puffed but could not blow Ghana away.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Difluoroethane is a gas often used in cans of compressed air, which can be huffed to produce a high, while alprazolam is the generic form of brand-name Xanax.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Definition of huffed
Verb
  • By the time many of these rising talents were accruing debt in graduate writing programs, the dream of a sustainable career in the nonprofit theater had already gasped its last breath.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • The crowd of 39,077 at Citi Field gasped and even applauded some when the replay was shown on the large videoboard in center.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Definition of gasped
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