EXPIRE

expire. expire, to die, or giue vp the ghost to decay.

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expire. Expire, v. to breathe out, exhale, die, end, close

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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. 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. 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. 3. To emit; to give out. Dryden.
4. 4. To bring to a close; to terminate.
Expire the term Of a despised life. Shak.