Meaning

(intransitive) To die..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To die.
2. (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
3. (intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
4. (ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
5. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
6. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
7. (transitive, computing) To cause to lapse; to invalidate.

Example Sentences

The patient expired in hospital.

And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.

Hippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound, ſhe cried, remove me! never! never! I lived but in her, and will expire with her.

Soon the patient had no longer sufficient strength to sit up; the trunk of the body was inclined to the right side, the head high and thrown backward, the mouth wide open: she seemed to stifle rather than respire: lastly, speech and respiration failed her; she uttered, however, in a feeble voice, some incoherent words, said she felt she was dying, and, accordingly, expired the sixth day after entrance.

People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

My library card will expire next week.

And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]

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

Word Forms

• expires
• expiring
• expired
• exspire

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