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期满,呼气,断气呼出
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Expire \Ex*pire"\, v. i.
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.
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.
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.
资料来源 : WordNet®
expire
v 1: lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: {run
out}]
2: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes
and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The
patient went peacefully" [syn: {die}, {decease}, {perish},
{go}, {exit}, {pass away}, {pass}] [ant: {be born}]
3: expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: {exhale},
{breathe out}] [ant: {inhale}]