aspired
- 1Simple past and past participle of aspire.
The young clerk aspired to a seat on the company's board.
Throughout her career she had aspired to nothing less than the top prize in her field.
Note
One spelling serves two jobs: the simple past (she aspired to the board) and the past participle after have (she had aspired to it for years). The living sense is intransitive, so the goal arrives through to rather than as a direct object. An object placed straight after it, as in aspired the summit, belongs to an obsolete use meaning "reached the top of." Aspired said of something rising upward is archaic and literary.
aspired is a form of aspire
aspire, verb: To have a strong hope or ambition of achieving something. Full entry
- Spelling
- aspire → aspired: add -d
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