Transpires vs Aspire - What's the difference?
transpires | aspire |
(transpire)
* {{quote-news, 1988, June 10, Sharon Solwitz, The Gospel According to Gordon Lish, Chicago Reader
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To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle ).
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
* Shakespeare
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
* Waller
As verbs the difference between transpires and aspire
is that transpires is while aspire is .transpires
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- He aspires to become a successful doctor.
- Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- My own breath still foments the fire, / Which flames as high as fancy can aspire .