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- [suh-spahyuh r]
- /səˈspaɪər/
- /səs.ˈpaɪə/
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- [suh-spahyuh r]
- /səˈspaɪər/
Definitions of suspire word
- verb without object suspire to sigh. 1
- verb without object suspire to breathe. 1
- verb with object suspire to sigh; utter with long, sighing breaths. 1
- verb suspire to sigh or utter with a sigh; yearn 0
- verb suspire to breathe; respire 0
- intransitive verb suspire to take a long, deep breath; esp., to sigh 0
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Origin of suspire
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English < Latin suspīrāre, equivalent to su- su- + spīrāre to breathe
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Parts of speech for Suspire
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exclamation
suspire popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 59% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
suspire usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for suspire
verb suspire
- crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- die for — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
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