ASPIRATE Synonyms

• heighten or intensify

• supply the inspiration for

• serve as the inciting cause of

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• fill with revolutionary ideas

• draw in (air)

• draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs

• be alive

• impart as if by breathing

• allow the passage of air through

• utter or tell

• manifest or evince

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked

• expel (gases or odors)

• expel air

• give out (breath or an odor)

• force to leave or move out

• remove from a position or office

• cause to flee

• eliminate (a substance)

• a short light gust of air

• a light inflated pastry or puff shell

• exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

• thick cushion used as a seat

• a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

• forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth

• gathered for protruding fullness

• smoke and exhale strongly

• suck in or take (air)

• breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

• make proud or conceited

• praise extravagantly

• speak in a blustering or scornful manner

• to swell or cause to enlarge

• blow hard and loudly

• breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety

• undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide

• draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs

• draw in (air)

• cause to speak

• lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

• make more sociable

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• remove by suction

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• remove by suction