Definition of "aspired" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of aspire. (verb)

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• "Ford, in short, aspired to a kind of benign totalising control."
• "The winter season suspended his progress: with the return of spring he again aspired to the conquest of Constantinople; but, instead of traversing the hills of Epirus, he turned his arms against Greece and the islands, where the spoils would repay the labor, and where the land and sea forces might pursue their joint operations with vigor and effect."
• "The most ambitious aspired from a filial to a fraternal relation with the image of"