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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. Swami Sivanada:

    Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

  2. Cicero:

    If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.

  3. Amanda Gorman:

    In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.

  4. Blair Fleming:

    Breaking into the top 5 would require a lot of capital and taking significant risk – this isn’t something we aspire to, overall 7 to 10 is a reasonable spot for us to occupy.

  5. Robert Mayne-Nicholls:

    Atacama is Chile's largest (salt flat) and has the largest reserves of lithium, so it's hard to aspire to something of that level, but we can aspire to something interesting.

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