[əˈspʌɪə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something
(e.g: we never thought that we might aspire to those heights)

- rise high; tower
(e.g: above the domes of loftiest mosques these pinnacles aspire)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from French aspirer or Latin aspirare, from ad- ‘to’ + spirare ‘breathe’