'Expire' definitions:
Definition of 'expire'
(from WordNet)
verb
Lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: run out, expire]
verb
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
verb
Expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: exhale, expire, breathe out] [ant: breathe in, inhale, inspire]
Definition of 'Expire'
From: GCIDE
- Expire \Ex*pire"\, 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.]
- 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. [1913 Webster]
- Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Expire the term Of a despised life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Expire'
From: GCIDE
- Expire \Ex*pire"\, v. i.
- 1. To emit the breath. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expire'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- be all over,
- be annihilated,
- be destroyed,
- be done for,
- be lost,
- be no more,
- be wiped out,
- become extinct,
- become void,
- blow,
- blow over,
- breathe,
- breathe hard,
- breathe in,
- breathe out,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- cease to live,
- close,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- conclude,
- conk,
- conk out,
- continue,
- cough,
- croak,
- decease,
- demise,
- depart,
- depart this life,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- disappear,
- discontinue,
- dissolve,
- elapse,
- emit,
- end,
- endure,
- evacuate,
- evaporate,
- exhale,
- exhaust,
- expel,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fall,
- fall asleep,
- finish,
- flee,
- flit,
- flow,
- flow on,
- fly,
- fume,
- gasp,
- give off,
- give out,
- give vent to,
- glide,
- go,
- go by,
- go on,
- go out,
- gulp,
- hack,
- have it,
- have its time,
- hiccup,
- huff,
- inhale,
- inspire,
- kick off,
- lapse,
- last,
- leave no trace,
- let out,
- melt away,
- open the floodgates,
- open the sluices,
- pant,
- part,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass by,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- peg out,
- perish,
- peter out,
- press on,
- proceed,
- puff,
- put off mortality,
- quit this world,
- reek,
- respire,
- return to dust,
- roll on,
- run,
- run its course,
- run on,
- run out,
- sigh,
- slide,
- slip,
- smoke,
- sneeze,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- steam,
- stop breathing,
- succumb,
- terminate,
- throw off,
- up and die,
- vanish,
- vapor,
- wear away,
- wear off,
- wheeze,
- yield the ghost