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Expirest vs Expires - What's the difference?

expirest | expires |

As verbs the difference between expirest and expires

is that expirest is (archaic) (expire) while expires is (expire).

expirest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (expire)

  • expire

    English

    Verb

    (expir)
  • to die
  • The patient expired in hospital.
  • to become invalid
  • My library card will expire next week.
  • to exhale; to breathe (out).
  • * Harvey
  • Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
  • * Dryden
  • This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire .
  • to exhale (something).
  • * 1843 , Loring Dudley Chapin
  • Animals expire' carbon and plants inspire it; plants ' expire oxygen and animals inspire it.
  • To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter
  • To bring to a close; to terminate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Expire the term / Of a despised life.

    Synonyms

    * (to die) See also

    Antonyms

    * (to exhale) inspire

    Derived terms

    * expiration * expiree

    Anagrams

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    expires

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (expire)
  • Anagrams

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