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expired 音標拼音: [ɪksp'ɑɪrd] pp. 到期 到期 expired adj 1: having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; " an expired passport"; " caught driving with an expired license" [ ant: { unexpired}] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. -- Harvey. [ 1913 Webster] This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To emit; to give out. [ Obs.] -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Expire the term Of a despised life. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
expired \ expired\ adj. having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license. Opposite of { unexpired}. [ WordNet 1. 5] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " expired": ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, down the drain, elapsed, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone- by, had it, has- been, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, perished, run out, vanished, wound up
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