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Bible Dictionaries
Expire
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To bring to a close; to terminate.
(2):
(v. t.) 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.
(3):
(v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
(4):
(v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - opposed to inspire.
(5):
(v. t.) To emit; to give out.
(6):
(v. i.) To emit the breath.
(7):
(v. i.) 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.
(8):
(v. i.) To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Expire'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/expire.html. 1828.
