expire

See also: expiré

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expirer, from Latin exspīrō, exspīrāre, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō, spīrāre (“breathe, be alive”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ɛkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To die.

   The patient expired in hospital.

2. (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.

   My library card will expire next week.

3. (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.

4. (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

5. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Expire the term / Of a despised life.

Synonyms

• (to die): See also Thesaurus:die

Antonyms

• (to exhale): inspire

Derived terms

• expiration
• expiry
• expiree

Related terms

• inspire
• respiration
• respire
• spirit

Translations

die — see die

become invalid

• Bulgarian: изтичам (bg) (iztičam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失效 (zh) (shīxiào)

• Danish: udløbe
• Dutch: aflopen (nl), vervallen (nl), verstrijken (nl), verlopen (nl)
• French: expirer (fr)
• German: ablaufen (de), erlöschen (de), verfallen (de)
• Hungarian: lejár (hu), érvényét veszti
• Indonesian: kedaluwarsa (id)
• Japanese: 失効する (ja) (shikkō suru)
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• Maori: mōnehu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utløpe

• Polish: wygasnąć
• Portuguese: vencer (pt), expirar (pt)
• Russian: истека́ть (ru) impf (istekátʹ), исте́чь (ru) pf (istéčʹ)
• Spanish: vencer (es), caducar (es)
• Swedish: gå ut (sv), löpa ut
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

exhale — see exhale

to exhale (something)

• Bulgarian: изпускам (bg) (izpuskam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼出 (zh) (hūchū)

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• Dutch: uitademen (nl), uitblazen (nl)
• German: ausatmen (de)
• Hungarian: kilehel (hu), kifúj

Anagrams

• prexie

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French

Verb

expire

1. first-person singular present indicative of expirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of expirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of expirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of expirer
5. second-person singular imperative of expirer

Anagrams

• expier

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Portuguese

Verb

expire

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Spanish

Verb

expire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of expirar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of expirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of expirar.