Expire vs. Inspire
Expire and Inspire Definitions
Expire
To come to an end; terminate
My membership in the club has expired.
Inspire
To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.
Expire
To breathe one's last breath; die
The patient expired early this morning.
Inspire
To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion
Hymns that inspire the congregation.
An artist who was inspired by Impressionism.
Expire
To exhale; breathe out.
Inspire
To stimulate to action; motivate
A sales force that was inspired by the prospect of a bonus.
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Expire
To breathe (something) out.
Inspire
To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch
"At this moment he inspired her with disgust rather than with love" (Anthony Trollope).
Expire
(Archaic) To give (something) off.
Inspire
To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse
A teacher who inspired admiration and respect.
Expire
(intransitive) To die.
The patient expired in hospital.
Inspire
To be the cause or source of; bring about
An invention that inspired many imitations.
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Expire
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
My library card will expire next week.
Inspire
To draw in (air) by inhaling.
Expire
(intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
Inspire
To breathe on.
Expire
(ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
Inspire
To breathe life into.
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Expire
(transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
Inspire
To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence
A leader who inspires by example.
Expire
(transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
Inspire
To inhale.
Expire
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.
This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
Expire
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.
The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
The captain's speech was aimed to inspire her team to victory in the final.
Expire
To emit; to give out.
Inspire
(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
Expire
To bring to a close; to terminate.
Expire the termOf a despised life.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
Expire
To emit the breath.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Expire
To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
Inspire
(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.
Expire
To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath,Inspirèd hath in every holt and heathThe tender crops.
Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing,The breathing instruments inspire.
Expire
To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
Expire
Lose validity;
My passports expired last month
Inspire
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.
Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.
Expire
Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
She died from cancer
They children perished in the fire
The patient went peacefully
Inspire
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
And generous stout courage did inspire.
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
Expire
Expel air;
Exhale when you lift the weight
Inspire
To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats.
Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
Inspire
To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.
Inspire
To breathe; to blow gently.
And when the wind amongst them did inspire,They wavèd like a penon wide dispread.
Inspire
Heighten or intensify;
These paintings exalt the imagination
Inspire
Supply the inspiration for;
The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
Inspire
Serve as the inciting cause of;
She prompted me to call my relatives
Inspire
Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Inspire
Fill with revolutionary ideas
Inspire
Draw in (air);
Inhale deeply
Inhale the fresh mountain air
The patient has trouble inspiring
The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
