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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
verb Ex*pire"
Senses
  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. 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. To emit; to give out.(Obs)
  4. To bring to a close; to terminate.(Obs)" Expire the term Of a despised life." [Shak.]

Etymology: L. expirare exspirare expiratum exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit

verb Ex*pire"
Senses
  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)"The ponderous ball expires." [Dryden.]
Other Dictionary Sources
  1. Expel air
    Synonyms: breathe out and exhale
  2. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, and snuff it
  3. Lose validity ("My passports expired last month")
    Synonyms: run out
Wiktionary

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

expire was also found in the following language(s): French, Portuguese, and Spanish

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Fun Facts about the name Expire

  • How unique is the name Expire? Out of 5,933,561 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Expire was not present. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year.
  • Weird things about the name Expire: Your name in reverse order is Eripxe. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Perixe. How do you pronounce that?
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Past life for Expire born May 9, 1930

I do not know how you feel about it, but you were a male in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere around the territory of Germany approximately on 1575. Your profession was teacher, mathematician, and geologist.

As an inquisitive and inventive person, you liked to get to the very bottom of things and to rummage in books. Talent for drama, natural born actor. The world is full of ill and lonely people. You should help those, who are less fortunate than you are.

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