suspire

See also: suspiré

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French suspirer (Modern soupirer), from Latin suspīrāre, present active infinitive of suspīrō.

Verb

suspire (third-person singular simple present suspir, present participle ing, simple past and past participle suspired)

1. (literary) To breathe.
   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.

2. (literary) To exhale.
   • William Shakespeare

     To him that yesterday did suspire.

3. (literary) To sigh.
   • Edward Fitzgerald

     Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough/Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

Synonyms

• (to breathe): see Thesaurus:breathe

Related terms

• suspiral
• suspiration
• suspirious

Noun

suspire (plural suspires)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suspire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• pussier, rises up, uprises

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Portuguese

Verb

suspire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of suspirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of suspirar
3. first-person singular imperative of suspirar
4. third-person singular imperative of suspirar

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Spanish

Verb

suspire

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of suspirar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suspirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suspirar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suspirar.