Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.
Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily.
1 Between pulls he would suspire deeply, so as to get the full assistance of the Climate.
2 She breathed long, gasping breaths and felt something in her suspire that was alien in its comfort.
3 The scene about me suspired like the brilliant and deadly scales of a poisonous reptile.
4 He suspired exhaustively in the still, strong heat, and took possession of the scene with commanding, intolerant eyes.
5 You've been suspiring and then you've wiped your forehead with your dirty hand, the way you say I mustn't.
6 The expression became a war-cry, and the world escaped from the baleful sceptre under whose shadow it had too long suspired .
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