expireとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/, /ɛkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: ex‧pire

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.
   • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

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

   • 1717, John Dryden, Meleager and Atalanta

     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.
   • 1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     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: […] 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