EXPIRE
\ɛkspˈa͡ɪ͡ə], \ɛkspˈaɪə], \ɛ_k_s_p_ˈaɪə]\
Definitions of EXPIRE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"
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pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
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lose validity; "My passports expired last month"
By Princeton University
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expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"
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pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
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lose validity; "My passports expired last month"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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To emit the breath.
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To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
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To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - opposed to inspire.
By Oddity Software
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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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To emit the breath.
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To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
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To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - opposed to inspire.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To breathe out: to emit or throw out from the lungs: to emit in minute particles.
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To breathe out the breath of life: to die: to come to an end.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To breathe out from the lungs; to emit in minute particles; to exhale.
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To emit the last breath; to die; to perish; to come to an end.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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