suspireとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /səˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)

動詞

suspire (third-person singular simple present suspires, present participle suspiring, simple past and past participle suspired)

1. (literary or archaic) To breathe, especially to exhale
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     To him that yesterday did suspire.

2. (literary) To sigh.
   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:

     Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
     The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
     Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
     Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

同意語

• (to breathe): see Thesaurus:breathe

関連する語

• suspiral
• suspiration
• suspirious

名詞

suspire (plural suspires)

1. (obsolete) A long, deep breath; a sigh.

参照

• “suspire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• pussier, rises up, uprises