'Expiration' definitions:
Definition of 'expiration'
(from WordNet)
noun
A coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license" [syn: termination, expiration, expiry]
noun
Euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]
noun
The act of expelling air from the lungs [syn: exhalation, expiration, breathing out]
Definition of 'Expiration'
From: GCIDE
- Expiration \Ex`pi*ra"tion\, n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.]
- 1. The act of expiring; as: (a) (Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration. (b) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. [1913 Webster]
- The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. --Bacon. (c) The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." --Rambler. (d) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end. [1913 Webster]
- Before the expiration of thy time. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound. [1913 Webster]
- The aspirate "he," which is . . . a gentle expiration. --G. Sharp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expiration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- annihilation,
- apodosis,
- Aqua-Lung,
- artificial respiration,
- aspiration,
- asthmatic wheeze,
- bane,
- biological death,
- breath,
- breath of air,
- breathing,
- broken wind,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- cessation of life,
- clinical death,
- close,
- closing,
- coda,
- concluding,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- cough,
- crack of doom,
- crossing the bar,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- demise,
- denouement,
- departure,
- destination,
- destiny,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- effect,
- end,
- end of life,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eternal rest,
- exhalation,
- exit,
- expiry,
- exsufflation,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final summons,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finger of death,
- finis,
- finish,
- gasp,
- goal,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- gulp,
- hack,
- hand of death,
- hiccup,
- inhalation,
- inhalator,
- inspiration,
- insufflation,
- iron lung,
- izzard,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last,
- last breath,
- last debt,
- last gasp,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
- omega,
- oxygen mask,
- oxygen tent,
- pant,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- payoff,
- period,
- perishing,
- peroration,
- puff,
- quietus,
- release,
- resolution,
- respiration,
- rest,
- resting place,
- reward,
- scuba,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- sigh,
- sleep,
- sneeze,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snoring,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- somatic death,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- summons of death,
- suspiration,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- wheeze,
- wind,
- windup,
- Z