Word Meanings - EXPIRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who expires or is expiring.

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• EXPIRANT
  One who expires or is expiring.
• EXPIRATION
  The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold
• EXPIRE
  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;
• EXPIRABLE
  That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.
• EXPIRATORY
  Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.
• EXPIRING
  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.
• EXPIRY
  Expiration. He had to leave at the expiry of the term. Lamb. The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J. Morley.