expire
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See also: expiré
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French expirer, from Latin exspīrō, exspīrāre, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō, spīrāre (“breathe, be alive”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
expire (third-person singular simple present expires, present participle expiring, simple past and past participle expired)
- (intransitive) To die.
- The patient expired in hospital.
- 1833, R. J. Bertin, Charles W. Chauncy, transl., Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 185:
- Soon the patient had no longer sufficient strength to sit up; the trunk of the body was inclined to the right side, the head high and thrown backward, the mouth wide open: she seemed to stifle rather than respire: lastly, speech and respiration failed her; she uttered, however, in a feeble voice, some incoherent words, said she felt she was dying, and, accordingly, expired the sixth day after entrance.
- (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
- My library card will expire next week.
- (transitive, intransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
- (Can we date this quote by Harvey and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
- 1843, Loring Dudley Chapin
- Animals expire carbon and plants inspire it; plants expire oxygen and animals inspire it.
- (Can we date this quote by Harvey and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Expire the term / Of a despised life.
Synonyms[edit]
- (to die): See also Thesaurus:die
Antonyms[edit]
- (to exhale): inspire
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
die — see die
become invalid
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exhale — see exhale
to exhale (something)
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
expire
- first-person singular present indicative of expirer
- third-person singular present indicative of expirer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of expirer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of expirer
- second-person singular imperative of expirer
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Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
expire
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of expirar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of expirar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of expirar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of expirar
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
expire
- third-person singular present subjunctive of expira
- third-person plural present subjunctive of expira
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
expire
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