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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired.
  2. v. To breathe one's last breath; die: The patient expired early this morning.
  3. v. To exhale; breathe out.
  4. v. To breathe (something) out.
  5. v. Archaic To give (something) off.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To breathe out; expel from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; emit from the lungs: opposed to inspire.
  2. To give out or forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or volatile matter; exhale; yield.
  3. To exhaust; wear out; bring to an end.
  4. To emit the breath: opposed to inspire. Specifically
  5. To emit the last breath; die.
  6. To come to an end; close or conclude, as a given period; come to nothing; cease; terminate; fail or perish; end: as, the lease will expire on the first day of May; all his hopes of empire expired.
  7. To come out; fly out.
  8. Synonyms Perish, etc. See die.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive to die
  2. v. intransitive to become invalid
  3. v. intransitive to exhale; to breathe (out).
  4. v. transitive to exhale (something).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
  2. v. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale
  3. v. obsolete To emit; to give out.
  4. v. obsolete To bring to a close; to terminate.
  5. v. To emit the breath.
  6. v. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die
  7. v. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct
  8. v. obsolete To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  2. v. expel air
  3. v. lose validity

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ex- ("out") + spīro ("breathe, be alive") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English expiren, from Old French expirer, from Latin exspīrāre : ex-, ex- + spīrāre, to breathe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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