suspire means A long, deep breath; a sigh. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SUSPIRE — [Verb, Noun] To draw a long, deep breath, or the breath so taken; a sigh of profound dimension. From the Latin suspīrāre, from sub- (from below) + spīrāre (to breathe). Unlike “sigh,” which is its audible, emotive cousin, or “respire,” which charts the clinical mechanics of gaseous exchange, to suspire is to draw the world up from the soles of the feet. It is the captive’s breath at a barred window, the weary expansion of ribs after hours of silent concentration, and the chest’s slow surrender against a lover’s back in the deep of the night—a minor resurrection, the body’s private liturgy for all that remains unsaid.
noun
- A long, deep breath; a sigh.
verb
- To breathe, especially to exhale“Fireflies that suspire / In short, soft lapses of transported flame.”
- To sigh.“Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.”