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Answer for the clue "Heave a sigh ", 7 letters:
suspire

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Word definitions for suspire in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A long, deep breath; a sigh. vb. 1 To breathe. 2 To exhale. 3 To sigh.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspire \Sus*pire"\, n. [Cf. L. suspirium.] A long, deep breath; a sigh. [Obs.]

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly" [syn: sigh ] draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring" [syn: breathe , take a breath , respire ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to sigh," from Old French souspirer (Modern French soupirer ), or directly from Latin suspirare "to draw a deep breath, heave a sigh," from assimilated form of sub "under" (see sub- ) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit ). Related: Suspired ; ...

Usage examples of suspire.

Francis had watched two dozen people suspire into death, all of them bums except for his father, and Gerald.

Windmaster Boras Mael, who suspires his soul through the leaves, and who has given his right toe to the Great Bone.

Presently upon his hide a little ball of liquid mysteriously suspired, grew, slid, dropped from his flanks into the road.

Lying on your back lazily, the body expressing the condition of yawning, suspiring while conceiving by smiling, that is the idea of the posture.

Instead, she devoted herself with an unusual and devastating assiduity to the suspiring Leandre, that poor devil who could not successfully play the lover with her on the stage because of his longing to play it in reality.

He threw himself behind its trunk and crouched there, peering up into the vast bluegreen umbrella of suspiring leaves.