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expire (v. intr.)
1.pass by"three years elapsed"
2.expel air"Exhale when you lift the weight"
3.lose validity"My passports expired last month"
4.(literary)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"
expire (v.)
1.die"The old man finally kicked the bucket"
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ExpireEx*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.
ExpireEx*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.
expire (v.)
become extinct, breathe one's last, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, come to an end, conclude, conk, croak, depart, depart this life, die, die out, drop dead, elapse, end, finish, give-up the ghost, go by, kick the bucket, pass away, pass by, pass on, perish, pop off, snuff it, stop
expire (v. intr.)
breathe out, elapse, exhale, glide by, go along, go by, intervene, lapse, pass, roll by, run out, slide by, slip, slip away, slip by, slip past
expire (v. intr.) (literary)
become extinct, bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, depart, depart this life, die, die out, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pass on, perish, pop off, croak (colloquial, U.S.A.), decease (jurisprudence), snuff it (colloquial)
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See also
expire (v. intr.)
↘ breathing out, dying, exhalation, expiration, goner, moribund, mortal, toast ↗ disappeared, late, passed away, passed on ≠ be born, breathe in, inhale, inspire
expire (v.)
expire (v. intr.)
expire (v. intr.)
expire (v. intr.) [literary]
change state, turn[Hyper.]
disappeared, late, passed away, passed on[Devenir+Attrib.]
death - departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release - death, decease, end, expiry - Death - dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed - death - death - death, last[Dérivé]
break, break down, conk out, die, fail, get stuck, give out, give way, go, go bad, go wrong, jam, pack up, seize up - die[Domaine]
be born[Ant.]
expire (v. intr.)
expire; elapse; go by[Classe]
arriver à une fin (fr)[Classe]
discontinue[Hyper.]
expiration, expiry, termination[Dérivé]
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