aspire
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aspire/əˈspʌɪə(r)/
▶verb (usu. aspire to /to do something)
- 1 direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something.
- 2 literary rise high; tower.
– origin ME: from Fr. aspirer or L. aspirant-, aspirare, from ad- ‘to’ + spirare ‘breathe’.
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