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Antonyms for aspire
əˈspaɪəras·pire

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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 2 votes

  1. draw a bead on, aspire, aim, shoot forverb

    have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

    Synonyms:
    aim, shoot for, drive, purport, place, draw a bead on, take aim, propose, direct, train, get, take, target, calculate, point, purpose

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 1 vote

  1. ASPIRE

    Synonyms:
    Action on Secondary Prevention by Intervention to Reduce Events

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. disike

    not to like anything or anybody

    i don't like the tea or the coffe

    Submitted by rinat on September 22, 2019  

How to use aspire in a sentence?

  1. Lovie Smith:

    They are an embarrassment. And as far as I’m concerned, if you’re an African American, and you aspire to be a head coach in the National Football League, there are 31 teams you should hope for. You should hope beyond God that the Houston Texans never call you.

  2. Jeff Paine:

    It is unrealistic for any one regime to aspire to centralize the delivery of privacy protections for the entire world in just one regulator.

  3. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

    One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

  4. Wednesday Comey:

    We continue to identify individuals who seek to join the ranks of foreign fighters ... and also homegrown violent extremists who may aspire to attack the United States from within.

  5. Chief Justice John Roberts:

    In the 1905 Swain trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word' pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used, i don't think we need to aspire to that high of a standard, but I do think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are.

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