Expire /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Expired; p. pr & vb. n. Expiring

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.

   This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.

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.

3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.]
4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]

   Expire the term Of a despised life.

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.]