expire

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expirer, from Latin exspīrō, exspīrāre, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō, spīrāre (“breathe, be alive”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ɛkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Verb

expire (third-person singular simple present expires, present participle expiring, simple past and past participle expired)

1. (intransitive) to die

   The patient expired in hospital.

2. (intransitive) to become invalid

   My library card will expire next week.

3. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
   • Harvey

     Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.

   • Dryden

     This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.

4. (transitive) to exhale (something).
   • 1843, Loring Dudley Chapin

     Animals expire carbon and plants inspire it; plants expire oxygen and animals inspire it.

5. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
   • Francis Bacon

     the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter

6. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
   • Shakespeare

     Expire the term / Of a despised life.

Anagrams

• prexie

Verb

expire

1. first-person singular present indicative of expirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of expirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of expirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of expirer
5. second-person singular imperative of expirer

Anagrams

• expier

Verb

expire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of expirar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of expirar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of expirar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of expirar

Verb

expire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of expirar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of expirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of expirar.