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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expire \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: expire v 1: lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: {run out}] 2: 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}] [ant: {be born}] 3: expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: {exhale}, {breathe out}] [ant: {inhale}]
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