Aspire

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Aspiration.

II. Aspire ·vt To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

III. Aspire ·vt To Rise; to Ascend; to Tower; to Soar.

IV. Aspire ·vt To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to Pant; to Long;

— followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.