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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suspire /səˈspʌɪə/

▶verb literary breathe.

– derivatives
suspiration noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘yearn after’): from L. suspirare, from sub- ‘from below’ + spirare ‘breathe’.

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