| 单词 | expired |
| 释义 | expired, ppl. a.|ɛkˈspaɪəd|
[f. expire v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb.
1. Breathed out, emitted from the lungs, etc.
1794J. Hutton Philos. Light, etc. 301 Heat..expended..for..heating the expired atmosphere. 1833Sir C. Bell Hand (ed. 3) 237 In speaking there is..required a certain force of expired air. 1876Foster Phys. ii. ii. (1879) 307 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.
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 71 A Law expired in time, though it hath lost his vigor and force, yet it is like a vertuous man deceased. 1631Heywood Eng. Eliz. (1641) 184 The bones of those which had been long since expired. 1647Beaum. & Fletcher's Wks. Ded. Ep., The then expired sweet Swan of Avon Shakespeare. 1648H. G. tr. Balzac's Prince 104 The Greatnesse and Majestie of the expired Common-Wealth. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 246 The expired period of ages hath not yet brought that fatal day. 1674J. B[rian] Harv. Home ii. 5 Soon or late, We clasp our Earth in Lifes expired date. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. i. xxii. (1865) 171 The expired..kitchen fires. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. II. iii. xliv. 515 In recently expired animals. |
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