expire

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To die. intransitive
    — The patient expired in hospital.
  2. To lapse and become invalid. intransitive
    — My library card will expire next week.
  3. To come to an end; to conclude. intransitive
    — And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]
  4. To exhale; to breathe out. ambitransitive
    — Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
  5. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles. transitive
    — the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter
  6. To bring to a close; to terminate. transitive
    — Expire the term / Of a despised life.
  7. To cause to lapse; to invalidate. transitive
    — The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours.

词形变化

expires present,singular,third-person expiring participle,present expired participle,past expired past exspire alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
expirable expiree expiry unexpire
相关词
expiration inspire respiration respire spirit

词源

From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).
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