suspire

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To him that did but yesterday suspire,

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  1. intransitive verb To breathe: "And from that one intake of fire/All creatures still warmly suspire” (Robert Frost).
  2. intransitive verb To sigh.

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  1. Middle English suspiren, to sigh, from Old French, from Latin suspīrāre : sub-, from below; see sub- + spīrāre, to breathe.

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  1. from Old French souspirer, French soupirer = Spanish Portuguese suspirar = Italian sospirare, from Latin suspirare, breathe out, draw a deep breath, sigh, from sus-, subs-, for sub-, under, + spirare, breathe, blow: see spire.
  2. = French soupir = Provencal sospir, sospire = Spanish Portuguese suspiro = Italian sospiro, a sigh (cf. Latin suspirium, a sigh, deep breathing, asthma); from the verb.
 

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