Word Meanings - EXPIRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold

Additional info about word: EXPIRATION

The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon. The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler. A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end. Before the expiration of thy time. Shak. 2. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound. The aspirate "he," which is . . . a gentle expiration. G. Sharp. (more info) 1. The act of expiring; as:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPIRATION)

• Death
• Departure
• demise
• decease
• dissolution
• mortality
• fall
• failure
• termination
• cessation
• expiration
• release
• exit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPIRATION)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EXPIRATION)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• EXPIRATION
  The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• DISSOLUTION
  1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak. 2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting. 3. Change of form by chemical
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• TERMINATION
  The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• RELEASEMENT
  The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• UNFETTER
  To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
• ENFETTER
  To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.