expireとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ɛkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)

動詞

expire (三人称単数 現在形 expires, 現在分詞 expiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 expired)

1. (intransitive) To die.

   The patient expired in hospital.

   • 1833, R. J. Bertin, Charles W. Chauncy, transl., Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 185:

     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.

2. (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.

   My library card will expire next week.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
   • (Can we date this quote by Harvey かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.

   • 1843, Loring Dudley Chapin

     Animals expire carbon and plants inspire it; plants expire oxygen and animals inspire it.

4. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
   • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter

5. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:

     Expire the term / Of a despised life.

同意語

• (to die): See also Thesaurus:die

反意語

• (to exhale): inspire

派生語

• expiration
• expiry
• expiree

関連する語

• inspire
• respiration
• respire
• spirit

アナグラム

• prexie