Aspire

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  • intransitive verb. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly.
  • intransitive verb. To strive toward an end or condition.
  • intransitive verb. To rise high; move upwards.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Aspiration; ardent wish or desire.
  • To breathe to or into.
  • To breathe forth or exhale.
  • To breathe after; seek with eagerness to attain to; long or try to reach; attempt.
  • To mount or soar to; attain.
  • To be eagerly desirous; aim ambitiously, especially at something great or noble; be ambitious: followed by an object with to or after, or by an infinitive: as, to aspire to a crown or after immortality.
  • To rise up as an exhalation, or as smoke or fire; hence, to mount or ascend; tower up or rise high.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
  • noun. Aspiration.
  • intransitive verb. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at
  • intransitive verb. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
  • Word Usage
    "The only good to which it should aspire is the perpetuation of its condition. —"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be after  plan  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    overshoot  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gire  Gyr  Tyre  admire  afire  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aim  aim at  aim high  ascend  aspiration  
    verb-form