EXPIRE

exhale, expire, breathe out

(verb) expel air; “Exhale when you lift the weight”

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

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

expire (third-person singular simple present expires, present participle expiring, simple past and past participle expired)

(intransitive) To die.

(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.

(ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.

(transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.

(transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

Synonyms

• (to die): See also die

Antonyms

• (to exhale): inspire

Anagrams

• prexie

Source: Wiktionary

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Ex*pire", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired;p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] Etym: [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.

Ex*pire", 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.] "The ponderous ball expires." Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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