suspire
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /səˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
suspire (suspires, present participle suspiring; past and past participle suspired)
- (literary) To breathe.
- Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.
- (literary) To exhale.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iv]:
- To him that yesterday did suspire.
- (literary) To sigh.
- Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough/Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
- (to breathe) see Thesaurus:breathe
suspire (plural suspires)
- (obsolete) A long, deep breath; a sigh.
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