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SUSPIRE

Definition: SUSPIRE

SUSPIRE

Intransitive verb

1. To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.

Noun

1. A long, deep breath; a sigh.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SUSPIRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Crosswords: SUSPIRE

Etymologies containing "SUSPIRE": Suspiration. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SUSPIRE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

suspire

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SUSPIRE

Language Translations for "SUSPIRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

psherëtij, ofshaj (damn, groan, moan). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

въздъхвам (fetch a sign). (various references)

   

Czech

  

toužit po (covet, crave, long for, pine, sigh). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναστενάζω (groan, sigh). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sóhajt (heave a sigh, sigh, to breathe a sigh, to fetch a sigh, to groan, to heave a sigh, to moan, to sigh, to sough). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uspiresay

   

Portuguese

  

suspirar (ache, groan, long for, sigh, yearn). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

suspina (groan, moan, sigh, sob), ofta (groan, sigh, sigh for, sob). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вздыхать (sigh, sighed). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uzdisati (groan, sigh). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

suspirar (heave a sigh, long, sigh, yearn). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

nefes almak (breath, breathe, draw a breath, draw breath, draw in, inhale, respire, take a breath), iç çekmek (draw a sigh, fetch a sigh, heave a sigh, inhale, sigh). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зітхати (breathe, heave, pine for, sigh, sithe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SUSPIRE

Derivations

Words beginning with "SUSPIRE": suspired, suspires. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SUSPIRE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sonspire, sospiri, sospiro, sulphite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SUSPIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pussier, uprises.

Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: issuer, pisser, prises, purses, sieurs, sirups, speirs, spiers, spires, sprues, supers, uprise.

-2 letters: issue, peris, piers, press, pries, prise, priss, puris, purse, puses, ripes, rises, risus, ruses, sieur, sipes, sires, sirup, speir, spier, spies, spire, sprue, spues, spurs, suers, super, supes, users.

-3 letters: ires, peri, pier, pies, piss, psis, pure, puri, purs, puss.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: primuses, pursiest, spurries, surprise, suspired, suspires, upraises, uprisers.

 

+2 letters: aruspices, disposure, disputers, pertussis, piecrusts, priapuses, punishers, pursiness, quipsters, spruciest, spurriers, superhits, superiors, superlies, supersize, supervise, suppliers, surplices, surprised, surpriser, surprises, surprizes, upraisers.

 

+3 letters: disposures, disreputes, disrupters, epicurisms, euphrasies, grumpiness, haruspices, impostures, impressure, impureness, pasteurise, pauperisms, percussing, percussion, percussive, perfusions, persuasion, persuasive, plesiosaur, pleurisies, poxviruses, preciouses, prelusions, presidiums, pressuring, pressurise, pressurize, proustites, proviruses, prurituses, publishers, puerilisms, pulverises, repulsions, resupplies, rhizopuses, rulerships, scriptures, semigroups, shunpikers, splurgiest, subperiods, sulphurise, supercoils, superfirms, superfixes, superminds, superminis, superpimps, supersized, superslick, supersonic, superspies, supervised, supervises, supervisor, superwives, suretyship, surprisers, underspins, unripeness, uroscopies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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