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as⋅pire

  [uh-spahyuhr]
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–verb (used without object), -pired, -pir⋅ing.
1. to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, esp. for something great or of high value (usually fol. by to, after, or an infinitive): to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.
2. Archaic. to rise up; soar; mount; tower.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME (< MF aspirer) < L aspīrāre to breathe upon, pant after, equiv. to a- a- 5 + spīrāre to breathe, blow

Related forms:
as⋅pir⋅er, noun
as⋅pir⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. yearn.
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as·pire   (ə-spīr')   
intr.v.   as·pired, as·pir·ing, as·pires

  1. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly: aspired to stardom.

  2. To strive toward an end: aspiring to great knowledge.

  3. To soar.


[Middle English aspiren, from aspirer, from Latin aspīrāre, to desire; see aspirate.]
as·pir'er n., as·pir'ing·ly adv.
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aspire 
c.1460, from O.Fr. aspirer "aspire to, inspire," from L. aspirare "to breathe upon," also "to seek to reach," from ad- "to" + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). Aspiration, in the sense of "earnest desire for something above one" first recorded 1606. The notion is of "panting with desire," or perhaps of rising smoke.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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