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).
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  • verb. have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal