1. To strive toward an end: "The university students aspire to greater knowledge in their chosen career fields."
2. To want to have or to achieve something; such as, a particular career or level of success: "These young men and women aspire to careers in medicine."

1. To come to an end; to terminate: "Rene's membership in the club will expire next month."
2. To breathe one's last breath; to die: "It is medically obvious that Austin will expire sometime today as a result of his long-term illness."
3. To exhale; to breathe out: "Doctor Armando wanted to measure the volume of air which Mamie could expire."

1. To stimulate others to do something; for example, any creative or artistic work: "Mrs. Verna Sandy's teaching techniques are done with the idea that they will inspire her students to become scientists."
2. To inhale air or a gas into the lungs: "While they wer climbing in the high mountains, Isabel and Morris had to inspire oxygen before they could climb any higher."