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expire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expire \Ex*pire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired; p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit.]
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
--Harvey.This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
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To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.
The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.
--Bacon. To emit; to give out. [Obs.]
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To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]
Expire the term Of a despised life.
--Shak.
Expire \Ex*pire"\, v. i.
To emit the breath.
To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] ``The ponderous ball expires.''
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "to die," from Old French expirer "expire, elapse" (12c.), from Latin expirare/exspirare "breathe out, blow out, exhale; breathe one's last, die," hence, figuratively, "expire, come to an end, cease," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)). "Die" is the older sense in English; that of "breathe out" is first attested 1580s. Of laws, patents, treaties, etc., mid-15c. In 17c. also transitive. Related: Expired; expiring.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to die 2 (context intransitive English) to become invalid 3 (context intransitive English) to exhale; to breathe (out). 4 (context transitive English) to exhale (something). 5 (context transitive English) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles. 6 (context transitive English) To bring to a close; to terminate.
WordNet
v. lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: run out]
pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, pass] [ant: be born]
expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: exhale, breathe out] [ant: inhale]
Wikipedia
Expire is an American hardcore punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, formed in 2009. They are currently signed to Bridge 9 Records.
Usage examples of "expire".
Here he made excellent use of his time, advocating bills on internal improvements, accomplishing much toward that end, although his time expired at the end of the year.
Trade had expired under the pressure of anarchy and distress, and the numbers of inhabitants had decreased with the opulence of the city.
Walking through a maze of stacked magazines and expired telephone books, she headed toward the mantel, where she saw a statue of Buddha resembling Baboo the Genie wearing balloony, CP Shades culottes.
I could lift my cutlass in his defence, fell back upon me, knocked me down in his fall, and expired in a moment.
One hour having expired since he had come on board, he ordered his boat, and returned to the shore, and we saw no more of him until we arrived at Spithead, when his lordship came on board, accompanied by a person whom we soon discovered was a half pay purser in the navy: a man who, by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions, had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron, that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage, as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre.
The last ray of hope for preserving the Union peaceably expired at the assault upon Fort Sumter, and a general review of what has occurred since may not be unprofitable.
The term of one hundred days for which the National Guard of Ohio volunteered having expired, the President directs an official acknowledgment to be made of their patriotic and valuable services during the recent campaigns.
It was, indeed, a singularly dull, monotonous voice which, arising from the upper end of the room, dragged itself on towards the middle, and expired with a sighing sound before it reached the end.
James Cunningham was succeeded in his title by his brother, and with him expired, in 1796, the last of a race, whose name is intimately connected with the History of Scotland, from the days of Malcolm Canmore.
He has long been very weak, and with very little alteration on him, he expired 3d Jan.
In consequence, the governor ordered all those whose time of being victualled had expired, to be struck off the list, and left to provide for themselves, a punishment which they richly deserved--some of them had been permitted to receive their rations for more than a year after their EIGHTEEN MONTHS had expired--the term specified by government.
Wilson, whose term of servitude had expired, preferred the mode of living among the natives, to earning his livelihood by the sweat of his brow.
The progress of the monks, which was become considerable, was somewhat retarded by the death of Edred, their partisan, who expired after a reign of nine years.
The king had not been above six weeks in Normandy, when he heard of the death of Sweyn, who expired at Gainsborough, before he had time to establish himself in his new-acquired dominions.
He here found every thing in confusion by the death of the king, who expired after an unhappy and inglorious reign of thirty-five years.