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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ex·pire       [ik-spahyuhr] Pronunciation Key verb, -pired, -pir·ing.
–verb (used without object)
1.to come to an end; terminate, as a contract, guarantee, or offer.
2.to emit the last breath; die.
3.to breathe out.
4.to die out, as a fire.
–verb (used with object)
5.to breathe out; emit (air) from the lungs.
6.Archaic. to give off, emit, or eject.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < L ex(s)pīrāre to breathe out, equiv. to ex- ex-1 + spīrāre to breathe]

ex·pir·er, noun
ex·pir·ing·ly, adverb
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ex·pire       (ĭk-spīr')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires

v.   intr.
  1. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired.
  2. To breathe one's last breath; die: The patient expired early this morning.
  3. To exhale; breathe out.

v.   tr.
  1. To breathe (something) out.
  2. Archaic To give (something) off.


[Middle English expiren, from Old French expirer, from Latin exspīrāre : ex-, ex- + spīrāre, to breathe.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
expire 
1419, from M.Fr. expirer, from L. expirare "breathe out, breathe one's last, die," from ex- "out" + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). "Die" is the older sense in Eng.; that of "breathe out" is first attested 1590. Of laws, patents, treaties, etc., c.1477.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
expire

verb
1. lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: run out
2. 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] [ant: be born
3. expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: exhale] [ant: breathe in

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

expire ex·pire (ĭk-spīr')
v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires

  1. To breathe one's last breath; die.
  2. To exhale.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. --Harvey.

This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. --Dryden.

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.

The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. --Bacon.

3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] --Dryden.

4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]

Expire the term Of a despised life. --Shak.

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Expire

Ex*pire"\, v. i. 1. To emit the breath.

2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

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.

4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." --Dryden.

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