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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expiring \Ex*pir"ing\, a. 1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating. 2. Pertaining to or uttered at the time of dying; as expiring words expiring groans. 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]: expiring adj : on the point of death; breathing your last "a moribund patient"; "the expiring man was carried home by his two friends" [syn: {expiring(a)}, {moribund}]
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