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Definition: SUSPIRATION |
SUSPIRATIONNoun1. The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh. |
Date "SUSPIRATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Suspiration \Sus`pi*ra"tion\, noun. [Latin expression suspiratio. See Suspire.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lamentation | Noun: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "SUSPIRATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναστεναγμόσ (sigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uspirationsay suspin (moan, sigh, sob), oftat (complaint, groan, sigh, sob, wail). (various references) nefes alma (aspiration, breath, breathing, inspiration, respiration, taking a breath), iç çekme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SUSPIRATION": suspirations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SUSPIRATION" (pronounced 'Sus`pi*ra"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rainspouts, supinators. | |
-2 letters: rainspout, spiritous, supinator. | |
-3 letters: airposts, arsonist, aspirins, atropins, ironists, opuntias, outspans, pianists, prosaist, protasis, puissant, puritans, rainouts, santours, sautoirs, sinopias, spinouts, spirants, unstraps, upstairs, utopians. | |
-4 letters: airpost, aorists, aristos, aroints, aspirin, atropin, aurists, inpours, instars, ironist, isatins, isospin, issuant, nitrous, nutrias, opuntia, outpass, outsins, outspan, parsons, partons, passion, pastors, patrons, pianist. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: suspirations. | |
+3 letters: haruspications, postindustrial, pressurization, superadditions. | |
+4 letters: micropulsations, pasteurizations, pressurizations, prussianization, repudiationists, ultraprecisions. | |
+5 letters: depressurization, pertinaciousness, presuppositional, prussianizations, supernormalities, superromanticism, supranationalism, supranationalist. | |
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