aspire
/əˈspaɪɚ/ verb B2- To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. · to aspire to / for / after / to do something; to aspire that something happens· He aspires to become a successful doctor.
He/she/it aspires · Past aspired · Past participle aspired · -ing form aspiring
Verb forms
- Base form
- aspire
- He/she/it
- aspires
- Past
- aspired
- Past participle
- aspired
- -ing form
- aspiring
From the library
Holmes had the impersonal joy of the true artist in his better work, even as he mourned darkly when it fell below the high level to which he aspired.
I’ve longed so to sing in the Sunday-school choir, as Diana does, but I feared it was an honor I could never aspire to.
This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.
“I think I may aspire to that honor,” said Danglars with a smile, which reminded Monte Cristo of the sickly moons which bad artists are so fond of daubing into their pictures of ruins.
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