Expire vs. Inspire: What's the Difference?

To come to an end; terminate

To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.

To breathe one's last breath; die

To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion

To exhale; breathe out.

To stimulate to action; motivate

To breathe (something) out.

To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch

(Archaic) To give (something) off.

To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse

(intransitive) To die.

To be the cause or source of; bring about

(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.

To draw in (air) by inhaling.

(intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.

To breathe on.

(ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.

To breathe life into.

(transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.

To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence

(transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

To inhale.

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - opposed to 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.

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.

(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.

To emit; to give out.

(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.

To bring to a close; to terminate.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

To emit the breath.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

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.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

Lose validity;

To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.

Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;

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.

Expel air;

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.

To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.

To breathe; to blow gently.

Heighten or intensify;

Supply the inspiration for;

Serve as the inciting cause of;

Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;

Fill with revolutionary ideas

Draw in (air);