Definition of "suspire" []

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

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• "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."