Expired

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expire \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. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from
        the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; --
        opposed to {inspire}.


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              Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of
              inspiring and expiring air.           --Harvey.
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              This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     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.
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              The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the
              earth in winter.                      --Bacon.
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     3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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     4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]
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              Expire the term
              Of a despised life.                   --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  expired \expired\ adj.
     having come to an end or become void after passage of a
     period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with
     an expired license. Opposite of {unexpired}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expired
       adj : having come to an end or become void after passage of a
             period of time; "an expired passport"; "caught driving
             with an expired license" [ant: {unexpired}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "expired":
     ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, blown over, by,
     bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct,
     departed, done for, down the drain, elapsed, extinct, finished,
     forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, had it, has-been,
     irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over,
     passe, passed, passed away, past, perished, run out, vanished,
     wound up