spire
/ˈspaɪ.ɚ/ verb C2- to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
- To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
- To furnish with a spire.
He/she/it spires · Past spired · Past participle spired · -ing form spiring
Verb forms
- Base form
- spire
- He/she/it
- spires
- Past
- spired
- Past participle
- spired
- -ing form
- spiring
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But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
Armies march by tower and spire
To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky.
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