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   Expire , 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.]
   To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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   Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
   Harvey.
   
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   This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
   Dryden.
   
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   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.
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   The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.
   Bacon.
   
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   To emit; to give out. [Obs.]
   Dryden.
   
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   To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]
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   Expire the term
   Of a despised life.
   Shak.
   
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   Expire, v. i.
   To emit the breath.
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   To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
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   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.
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   To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] “The ponderous ball expires.”
   Dryden.
   
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