suspire
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /səˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
Verb

suspire (suspires, present participle suspiring; past and past participle suspired)

  1. (literary) To breathe.
    • Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.
  2. (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.
  3. (literary) To sigh.
    • Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough/Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
Synonyms Related terms Noun

suspire (plural suspires)

  1. (obsolete) A long, deep breath; a sigh.



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