English-Dutch translations for sigh

zucht
Mijnheer de Voorzitter, het doet mij genoegen de zucht van opluchting te horen wanneer ik hier opsta. Mr President, I do like the sigh of relief when I rise in this place. We zullen een zucht van opluchting slaken na acht jaar achteruitgang. We will breathe a sigh of relief after eight years of going backwards. En ook dan zullen wij nog lang geen zucht van verlichting kunnen slaken. Even then, we will be a long way from being able to breathe a sigh of relief.
klacht

verzuchting
zuchten
Nu hoor ik de collega's al zuchten omdat dit nogal een langlopende geschiedenis kent, maar het staat nu in de resolutie. I can already hear honourable Members sighing that this story has dragged on and on, but it is now on the point of resolution.

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
To lament; to grieve
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over
To experience an emotion associated with sighing
To make a sound like sighing
To exhale in sighs
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs
A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing
Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts

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