Expire

Expire (expire)
v. t.	(?)
Ex*pire"
[imp. ** p. p.* Expired (?)] p. pr ** vb. n.* Expiring.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum] ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer

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.

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.

To emit; to give out.

[Obs.] Dryden.

To bring to a close; to terminate.

[Obs.]

Expire the term
Of a despised life. Shak.

Expire

Expire (expire)
v. i.
Ex*pire"

To emit the breath.

To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

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.

To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.

[Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." Dryden.

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