Definition of "suspire"

suspire

/səˈspaɪə(ɹ)/

verb
third-person singular simple present suspires, present participle suspiring, simple past and past participle suspired
1. (literary) To breathe.
  Quotations
  Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.
  1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857
2. (literary) To exhale.
  Quotations
  To him that yesterday did suspire.
  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, [Act III, scene iv]
3. (literary) To sigh.
  Quotations
  Now the New Year reviving old Desires,The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,Where the White Hand of Moses on the BoughPuts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
  1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2
noun
plural suspires
1. (obsolete) A long, deep breath; a sigh.