I'm confused
Sep. 8th, 2005 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderr(one of msn's daily vocab words)
suspire
sus·pire (past and past participle sus·pired, present participle sus·pir·ing, 3rd person present singular sus·pires)
intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. breathe in: to draw in breath
2. sigh: to give a sigh
Aren't breathing in and sighing two slightly different things? Sighing, or at least when I sigh, is a breathing out motion. How can one word define two opposite actions? Or am I just being blonde and missing something painfully obvious which will make me regret posting this?
How would even use that in a sentence? They all come off rather awkward sounding. Hrm...
suspire
sus·pire (past and past participle sus·pired, present participle sus·pir·ing, 3rd person present singular sus·pires)
intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. breathe in: to draw in breath
2. sigh: to give a sigh
Aren't breathing in and sighing two slightly different things? Sighing, or at least when I sigh, is a breathing out motion. How can one word define two opposite actions? Or am I just being blonde and missing something painfully obvious which will make me regret posting this?
How would even use that in a sentence? They all come off rather awkward sounding. Hrm...
