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What is the verb for aspiration?

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aspire
  1. (intransitive) To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
  3. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “They aspire to have the freedom to be able to help whatever charitable cause is nearest to their heart.”
      “Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college.”
      “You can always aspire to the mediocre and attain less, or you can aspire to the great and hope that you get somewhere close.”
aspiring
aspires
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aspire
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Although Cleo is not born a society woman, she aspires to that status and competes with the other women in the novel to be the it girl.”
      “A glorified secretary for the local police department, Marvin aspires to be a cop.”
      “It is a schizoid text of herstory, and the moments in the texts when she aspires towards primordial ideological bullying are way off the mark.”
aspireth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of aspire
aspirest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of aspire
aspired
  1. simple past tense and past participle of aspire
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  3. Examples:
    1. “While many of his peers aspired to be club DJs, Costello exchanged his record decks for a synthesiser after only a week.”
      “Representing croppers who aspired to the middle class was essential to the sentimentalism of the documentary form.”
      “If you cannot sit still, stay home on your couch where you can stretch out and be the couch potato you've always aspired to.”
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