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The Meaning of expire
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(v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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(v. t.) 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.
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(v. t.) To emit; to give out.
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(v. t.) To bring to a close; to terminate.
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(v. i.) To emit the breath.
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(v. i.) To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
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(v. i.) 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.
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(v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
Synonyms
go
,
beetle off
,
conk out
,
choke
,
breathe out
,
bolt
,
croak
,
exit
,
perish
,
snuff it
,
pass away
,
cash in one's chips
,
run off
,
poop out
,
conk
,
bolt out
,
run down
,
drop dead
,
run out
,
drain
,
fail
,
peter out
,
die
,
pop off
,
buy the farm
,
give out
,
give-up the ghost
,
pass
,
kick the bucket
,
spill
,
decease
,
exhale
,
fall
,
function
,
come about
,
murmur
,
give way
,
elapse
,
hold out
,
pass out
,
run
,
go past
,
lead
,
top
,
put across
,
go by
,
devolve
,
operate
,
cronk
,
travel
,
occur
,
last
,
scrag
,
fade
,
go away
,
excrete
,
reach
,
move
,
spend
,
rifle
,
slide by
,
asphyxiate
,
foul
,
turn over
,
run low
,
die out
,
plump
,
legislate
,
happen
,
egest
,
fret
,
authorise
,
exceed
,
fleet
,
get out
,
overstep
,
endure
,
give
,
draw
,
make it
,
congest
,
blend in
,
run short
,
get going
,
locomote
,
back up
,
choke off
,
make pass
,
suffocate
,
grumble
,
slip away
,
authorize
,
live
,
return
,
blend
,
go out
,
fall out
,
hap
,
slip by
,
go on
,
sink
,
eliminate
,
lapse
,
belong
,
mutter
,
clog
,
pass off
,
go bad
,
become flat
,
survive
,
blow over
,
get
,
take place
,
gag
,
overhaul
,
throttle
,
become
,
go through
,
evanesce
,
live on
,
communicate
,
hand
,
clog up
,
swoon
,
fit
,
go across
,
sound
,
overtake
,
transcend
,
glide by
,
gnarl
,
extend
,
start
,
depart
,
faint
,
stifle
,
pall
,
proceed
,
break down
,
clear
,
stall
,
travel by
,
hold up
,
pass along
,
break
,
go along
,
surpass
,
guide
,
pass by
,
leave
,
strangle
,
work
,
pass on
,
emanate
,
give forth
,
cease
,
decline
,
wither
Antonyms
be born
,
come into being
,
flourish
,
rise again
,
begin
,
come to life
,
grow
,
rise from the dead
,
be immortal
,
exist
,
live
,
survive
Rhymes
admire
,
afire
,
alkire
,
aspire
,
backfire
,
beijer
,
berkshire
,
biedermeier
,
crossfire
,
devonshire
,
dire
,
dwire
,
eir
,
esquire
,
fire
,
frymire
,
gire
,
glenayre
,
guire
,
gunfire
,
gyr
,
haywire
,
hellfire
,
hire
,
hyre
,
inquire
,
inspire
,
ire
,
izaguirre
,
lancashire
,
lyre
,
maguire
,
martyre
,
mcguire
,
mcintire
,
mcquire
,
mire
,
myre
,
perspire
,
quire
,
reacquire
,
require
,
retire
,
safire
,
schreyer
,
scire
,
shire
,
shropshire
,
skier
,
smyre
,
spire
,
squire
,
tyre
,
untermeyer
,
whitmire
,
wiltshire
,
wire
,
wyre