intransitive. To breathe hard, pant; also quasi-transitive to breathe out (fire).

transitive. To exhale (air, smoke, etc.); to expel from the lungs by exhalation.

transitive. To breathe out; to emit as breath. Now poetic.

= expire, v. (Cf. Old French espirer; cf. a-, prefix1.)

To breathe out (life, soul, words, a prayer, etc.).

transitive. To breathe out (air, etc.) from the lungs; also with forth.

transitive. = expire, v. 1.

transitive. To breathe out.

To pour out by or as by breathing; to emit or give forth (odour).