Meaning

(intransitive) To sink; fall; drop..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.
2. (intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
3. (intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
4. (transitive) To sift.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
6. A drop.
7. (rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she

Example Sentences

If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]

"You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.

Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie offered me this language, 'sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'

Word Forms

• sies
• sying
• sied
• sigh
• sey
• sye
• sir
• hir
• hirs
• hirself
• shi

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When Should You Use Sie?

Use sie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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