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Definition of Expiring
1. a. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
Definition of Expiring
1. Adjective. Ending, terminating, dying. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of expire) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expiring
1. expire [v] - See also: expire
Medical Definition of Expiring
1. 1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating. 2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expiring
Literary usage of Expiring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Texas Legislature. Senate, Legislature, United States Congress. Senate, Texas State Library, Texas (1913)
"WT Eldridge, contract expiring December 31, 1911. AP Borden, contract expiring
December 31, 1911. Dew Brothers, contract expiring December 31, 1911. ..."
2. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1885)
"61 (the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883), section 33 : " Where a half year's
notice, expiring with a year of tenancy, is by law necessary and sufficient for ..."
3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1914)
"for the term expiring 1919; from South Carolina. BenJ. ... for the term expiring
March 4, 1913, succeeding RM Johnston, Interim appointment, ..."
4. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1907)
"JM Greenwood, to succeed himself, term expiring in 1909. ... F. Louis Soldan to
succeed NC Dougherty, resigned, term expiring in 1908. ..."
5. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1915)
"Maurice Stern, New Orleans, to be re-elected for term expiring 1919. District IV.
Morris M. Cohn, Little Rock, to be re-elected for term expiring 1919. ..."
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