Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To breathe: "And from that one intake of fire/All creatures still warmly suspire” ( Robert Frost).
- v. To sigh.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To fetch a long, deep breath: sigh.
- To breathe.
- To sigh or long for.
- n. A deep breath; a sigh.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.
- n. A long, deep breath; a sigh.
WordNet 3.0
- v. heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
- v. draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
Etymologies
- Middle English suspiren, to sigh, from Old French, from Latin suspīrāre : sub-, from below; see sub- + spīrāre, to breathe.
Examples
“The days are yawning in view of the years struggling to suspire”
“Each of the principals, seconded by his particular waiter, after carefully taking his opponent's range and bearings, will suspire and hit him in the eye.”
“Marlow's tale was a powerful one: I could hear Mrs. Marlow suspire faintly, ever so faintly -- the troubled, small, soft sigh of a brave woman indefinably stricken.”
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“The elements we feel and see shift and drift and suspire”
“Between pulls he would suspire deeply, so as to get the full assistance of the Climate.”
“But times are bad!" he would suspire in moments of depression.”
“Zadkiel or no Zadkiel, I will suspire, and risk it, "O that I were lying under the olives!”
“Each flight they take: and fire-flies, that suspire”
“You verify in energy, you provide discover energy, you permit it line … you don't essay to kibosh the flow, you don't set and vexation when you suspire whether and where from module added respite come, you foregather permit it become in and go out.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suspire’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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spires
arcospire, inspire, squinch, perspire, spirea, aspire, suspire, transpire, leptospire, crocket, whorl, helicoid and 10 more...
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The Vampire Spotter's Guide
Even if you know your Nosferatu from your Dracula, you may not have heard of these before. (Thanks to bilby for the list suggestion on Transpire.)
transpire, empire, umpire, expire, perspire, leptospire, conspire, coconspire, pompire, inspire, spire, aspire and 4 more...
john A living, breathing—well, breathing at least—vampire. Mar 25, 2009
brtom -- Lovely! Buck Mulligan suspired amorously.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9 Jan 5, 2007