Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sough
Participle: soughed
Gerund: soughing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sough |
| you | sough |
| he;she;it | soughs |
| we | sough |
| you | sough |
| they | sough |
Perfect
| I | have soughed |
| you | have soughed |
| he;she;it | has soughed |
| we | have soughed |
| you | have soughed |
| they | have soughed |
Past
| I | soughed |
| you | soughed |
| he;she;it | soughed |
| we | soughed |
| you | soughed |
| they | soughed |
Pluperfect
| I | had soughed |
| you | had soughed |
| he;she;it | had soughed |
| we | had soughed |
| you | had soughed |
| they | had soughed |
Future
| I | will sough |
| you | will sough |
| he;she;it | will sough |
| we | will sough |
| you | will sough |
| they | will sough |
Future Perfect
| I | will have soughed |
| you | will have soughed |
| he;she;it | will have soughed |
| we | will have soughed |
| you | will have soughed |
| they | will have soughed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sough |
| you | sough |
| he;she;it | sough |
| we | sough |
| you | sough |
| they | sough |
Perfect
| I | have soughed |
| you | have soughed |
| he;she;it | have soughed |
| we | have soughed |
| you | have soughed |
| they | have soughed |
Imperfect
| I | soughed |
| you | soughed |
| he;she;it | soughed |
| we | soughed |
| you | soughed |
| they | soughed |
Pluperfect
| I | had soughed |
| you | had soughed |
| he;she;it | had soughed |
| we | had soughed |
| you | had soughed |
| they | had soughed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sough |
| you | would sough |
| he;she;it | would sough |
| we | would sough |
| you | would sough |
| they | would sough |
Perfect
| I | would have soughed |
| you | would have soughed |
| he;she;it | would have soughed |
| we | would have soughed |
| you | would have soughed |
| they | would have soughed |
Imperative
| you | sough |
| we | Let's sough |
| you | sough |
Verbs conjugated like 'sough'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sough'
cough,
dough,
hough,
rough,
slough,
south,
tough,
bouge,
couch,
gouge,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To whisper quietly.
- breathe
- To make a moan (a low, mournful cry) or similar sound.
- moan
- to make a soft rustling or murmuring sound
- murmur, rustle, swough
- To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- purl
- To make a sound like sighing (a series of deep, prolonged audible breaths).
- sigh
- To make soft murmurs.
- susurrate
- To make a rustling sound while moving.
- swish
- To make a low, sibilant sound.
- whisper
- To make a breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
- whoosh
Antonyms
- to make a soft rustling or murmuring sound
- blare, boom, clang, peal, roar, thunder
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English *sough, swough, swogh, from Middle English swoȝen, swowen, from Old English swōgan (“to make a sound; move with noise; rush; roar”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-, same source as English echo (via Ancient Greek). Cognate with Scots souch (“sough”), Icelandic súgur (“a rushing sound, rustle”). Noun replaced Middle English swei, sweȝ from Old English swēg. More at swoon. See: Proto-Germanic '
*swōganą', English '
echo'.
Sample Sentences
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The great train snaked on through the dark, pounding out the miles through the empty plains and mingy hamlets of Georgia, the 'Peach State', the angry moan of its four-toned wind-horn soughing over the wide savannah and the long shaft of its single searchlight ripping the black calico of the night. [1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 115:]
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I lay awake for a while that evening, listening to the soughing of the wind high in the pines, realizing sadly that we must now return to civilization. [1963, Sterling North, Rascal, Avon Books, page 101:]