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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