expire

UK /ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ US /ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

To die.

The patient expired in hospital.

And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.

2

To lapse and become invalid.

My library card will expire next week.

3

To come to an end; to conclude.

And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]

4

To exhale; to breathe out.

Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.

This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.

5

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

the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter

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