suspires

Verb

suspire (third-person singular simple present suspires, present participle suspiring, simple past and past participle suspired)

1. (archaic, literary) To breathe, especially to exhale
   • Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   breathe

2. (literary) To sigh.
   • Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
     The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
     Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
     Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2

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