expire

expire is a Verb

Definition:

[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.] Dryden.

[4] To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.] Expire the term Of a despised life. Shak.