transitive. To try to obtain or accomplish, to work to bring about, to strive for (a circumstance, event, condition, etc.); to seek after, aim at.

transitive. To aim at, aspire to, or make for (something); to seek to obtain or attain. Obsolete.

intransitive. With for, to. To long or wish for something with breathless eagerness. Cf. pant, v. 3.

to hawk after (for): to hunt after, to endeavour to catch or gain. Obsolete.

transitive. = affect, v.1 (esp. in senses 5 and 6).

intransitive. To aspire to (something); to long for (something). Now archaic and rare.

= emulate, v.

transitive. To have an ardent desire for, to pant or long for, to be ambitious of, aim at. Obsolete.

intransitive. To make it one's ambition, strive in a spirit of rivalry (to do or obtain something). Const. infinitive. Obsolete.

to fawn upon (a thing, an object of desire): to aspire to. Obsolete. rare.