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Can I use one verb to describe 'sigh with emotion'?

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PennyChan
 
Reply Fri 29 Oct, 2010 08:18 pm
Can I use one verb to describe 'sigh with emotion'?
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laughoutlood
 
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Reply Fri 29 Oct, 2010 10:41 pm
@PennyChan,
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Can I use one verb to describe 'sigh with emotion'?


You certainly may, which one did you have in mind?
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 30 Oct, 2010 03:56 am

A sigh always expresses emotion.

Otherwise it's an exhalation.
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Sat 30 Oct, 2010 09:30 am
sigh with emotion?

gasped
heaved
choked
wailed
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 30 Oct, 2010 10:20 am
Wailing is not sighing.
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