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English Dictionary: expire	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for expire
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expire v lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: {run out}, expire] pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" Synonym(s): die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it Antonym(s): be born expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" Synonym(s): exhale, expire, breathe out Antonym(s): breathe in, inhale, inspire
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expire \Expire"\, 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}.] 1. 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. --Dryden. 2. 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. 3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] --Dryden. 4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.] Expire the term Of a despised life. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expire \Expire"\, v. i. 1. To emit the breath. 2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire* calmly; to expire in agony. 3. 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. 4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] [bd]The ponderous ball expires.[b8] --Dryden.