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Expire   /ɪkspˈaɪr/   Listen
verb
Expire  v. t.  (past & past part. expired; pres. part. expiring)  
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." "This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire."
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."
3.
To emit; to give out. (Obs.)
4.
To bring to a close; to terminate. (Obs.) "Expire the term Of a despised life."


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.) "The ponderous ball expires."





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"Expire" Quotes from Famous Books



... convert the same From a consuming fire Into a gentle-licking flame, And make it thus expire. Then make me weep My pains asleep; And give me such reposes That I, poor I, May think thereby I live ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... liberalism seemed to have entered the group of 'disciples.' He was accused of saying that Jesus was to destroy the temple and change the customs of Moses. In his bold defence he admitted that in his view the Law was valid only for a limited period, which would expire so soon as Jesus returned as Messiah. This was quite enough for the Sanhedrin. They stoned Stephen, and compelled the 'disciples' to disperse and fly for their lives. Only the Apostles, whose devotion to ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
... "relates to the articles of said treaty so to be terminated." The joint resolution certainly did not repeal section 3, and if that section has ceased to be operative it is by virtue of the limitation contained in the section itself. I think it did expire by its own ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison
... times, as proved by the late attempt on the King's life, and partly by the open avowal of republican doctrines made at the meetings of different societies; partly, also, on the temporary character of the measures, since in each bill a period was fixed after which its operation should expire. And he argued, farther, that, as many of the actions specified in these bills as seditious or treasonable were by many lawyers considered capable of being reached by statutes already existing, though not universally ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge


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