Thesaurus results for SOUGHED

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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Watching the hearing via Zoom from a prison holding room, Powell wiped his eyes and sighed heavily as Cribbs once again recited the facts of the case before Judge Rachelle Carnesale, explaining when Walton was fatally shot.

— Andy Rose, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Pino’s supporters sighed and sniffled when the verdict was announced.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026

Definition of sighed

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All-Pro middle linebacker Jeremiah Trotter placed one of his massive hands on the belly of his expectant wife and breathed a prayer.

— Mike Jones, New York Times, 19 June 2026
That was when microbes wrested energy from light and, in the process, breathed new life into the world.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026

Definition of breathed

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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

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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

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