'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