expiration

Plural: expirations

Noun

• a coming to an end of a contract period
• euphemistic expressions for death
• the act of expelling air from the lungs
• An act, process, or instance of expiring.
• The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
• An act, process, or instance of expiring.
• A single outward breath.
• An act, process, or instance of expiring.
• Other similar release of volatile matter.
• An act, process, or instance of expiring.
• The last emission of breath; thus, synonym of death.
• An act, process, or instance of expiring.
• Any other (metaphorically comparable) cessation, extinction, or ending.
• An act, process, or instance of expiring.
• That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

Examples

• crackles heard on expiration
• expiration date
• labored expirations

Synonyms

breathing out, departure, exhalation, exit, expiry, going, loss, passing, release, termination, (the) bane, (the) end, celestial transfer, crash, death, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, demise, dirt nap, doom, downfall, emission, end#Noun, expiration, fall, fatality, liquidation, mortality, quietus, repose, sleep of the just, sunset, the big sleep

Antonyms

inhalation, inspiration

Related Words

expire, expiry