Dictionary Definition
expiration
Noun
1 a coming to an end of a contract period; "the
expiry of his driver's license" [syn: termination, expiry]
2 euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands
mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, going, release]
3 the act of expelling air from the lungs [syn:
exhalation, breathing
out]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of expiring
- 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 inspiration.
- Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
- The last emission of breath; death.
- A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
- That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
Translations
The act of expiring
- Finnish: erääntyminen, umpeutuminen
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
- Czech: výdech
- Finnish: ekspiraatio, uloshengitys
Emission of volatile matter; exhalation
The last emission of breath; death
- Finnish: viimeinen henkäys
A coming to a close; cessation; extinction;
termination; end
That which is expired; matter breathed forth;
that which is produced by breathing out
Extensive Definition
Expiration may refer to:
- Death
- Exhalation
- Expiration date (disambiguation)
- Expiration (film)
expiration in French: Expiration
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Aqua-Lung, Z, annihilation, apodosis, artificial
respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze,
bane, biological death,
breath, breath of air,
breathing, broken
wind, catastrophe,
ceasing, cessation, cessation of life,
clinical death, close,
closing, coda, concluding, conclusion, consummation, cough, crack of doom, crossing the
bar, culmination,
curtain, curtains, death, death knell, debt of
nature, decease,
demise, denouement, departure, destination, destiny, discontinuance, discontinuation,
dissolution,
doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point,
ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest,
exhalation, exit, expiry, exsufflation, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution, final
summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finger of death,
finis, finish, gasp, goal, going, going off, grave, gulp, hack, hand of death, hiccup, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, iron lung,
izzard, jaws of death,
knell, last, last breath, last debt, last
gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last
things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of
life, making an end, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, omega, oxygen mask, oxygen tent,
pant, parting, passing, passing away, passing
over, payoff, period, perishing, peroration, puff, quietus, release, resolution, respiration, rest, resting place, reward, scuba, sentence of death, shades
of death, shadow of death, sigh, sleep, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, somatic death, sternutation, stertor, stoppage, stopping place,
summons of death, suspiration, swan song,
term, terminal, termination, terminus, wheeze, wind, windup