資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Expiring \Ex*pir"ing\, a.
   1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or
      volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath;
      dying; ending; terminating.

   2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as,
      expiring words; expiring groans.

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.