EXPIRE Copy link • EXPIREBreathe one’s last, animam efflare or edere; extremum vitae spiritum edere: ☞ (animam) exspirare; vitam or animam exhalare; vitam or extremum spiritum efflare are poetical. [Vid: DIE.] To terminate; of time, praeterire (to pass): confici (to be made up): peragi (Liv. 1, 32): consumi: intercedere: interponi (with reference to two events): transire. Scarcely a year had expired, vix annus intercesserat (ab hoc sermone): the truce had expired, indutiarum dies exierat (Liv. 4, 30): after the truce had expired, indutiarum tempore circumacto (Liv. 27, 30): when two years had expired, biennio jam confecto. ☞ Not elapsum esse; nor effluere, except of time that has passed rapidly without being employed usefully, etc.