expiredadj.
/ɛkˈspʌɪəd/ In senses of the verb.
1. Breathed out, emitted from the lungs, etc.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [adjective]
outbreathed1590
exhalatory1752
expired1794
expiratory1847
outbreathing1849
pluffing1853
1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 301 Heat..expended..for..heating the expired atmosphere.
1833 C. Bell Hand (ed. 3) 237 In speaking there is..required a certain force of expired air.
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. ii. 228 The temperature of expired air is variable.
2. Of a person or animal: That has breathed the last breath, dead. Of a fire: Extinct. Of a law: That has reached its term; obsolete. Of a date or period: Completed.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective] > come or brought to an end
past1340
consummatea1500
determined1581
finished1582
overpassed1582
overspent1597
ended1598
spent1609
expired1631
terminate1639
winded1642
petered-out1971
1631 T. Heywood England's Elizabeth (1641) 184 The bones of those which had been long since expired.
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 71 A Law expired in time, though it hath lost his vigor and force, yet it is like a vertuous man deceased.
1647 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. Ep. Ded. The then expired sweet Swan of Avon Shakespeare.
1648 H. Gresby tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Prince 104 The Greatnesse and Majestie of the expired Common-Wealth.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 246 The expired period of ages hath not yet brought that fatal day.
1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home ii. 5 Soon or late, We clasp our Earth in Lifes expired date.
1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 253 The expired..kitchen-fires.
1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xliv. 515 In recently expired animals.
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