expiration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=pi=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

expiration, n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.].

•  The act of expiring  [1913 Webster]

  "The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth."

  "Before the expiration of thy time."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.  [1913 Webster]

  "The aspirate “he,” which is . . . a gentle expiration."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

expiration, n.
1 breathing out.
2 expiry.

Etymology

L expiratio (as EXPIRE)

THESAURUS

expiration

Aqua-Lung, Z, annihilation, apodosis, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, bane, biological death, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, clinical death, close, closing, coda, concluding, conclusion, consummation, cough, crack of doom, crossing the bar, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, demise, denouement, departure, destination, destiny, discontinuance, discontinuation, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exhalation, exit, expiry, exsufflation, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, gasp, goal, going, going off, grave, gulp, hack, hand of death, hiccup, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, iron lung, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, omega, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, period, perishing, peroration, puff, quietus, release, resolution, respiration, rest, resting place, reward, scuba, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sigh, sleep, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, somatic death, sternutation, stertor, stoppage, stopping place, summons of death, suspiration, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, wheeze, wind, windup

ROGET THESAURUS

expiration

End

N end, close, termination, desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega, extreme, extremity, gable end, butt end, fag-end, tip, nib, point, tail, verge, tag, peroration, bonne bouche, bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard, consummation, denouement, finish, fate, doom, doomsday, crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain, goal, destination, limit, determination, expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination, death, end of all things, finality, eschatology, break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point, coup de grace, deathblow, knock-out-blow, sockdolager, ending, final, terminal, definitive, crowning, last, ultimate, hindermost, rear, caudal, vergent, conterminate, conterminous, conterminable, ended, at an end, settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest, conclusive, penultimate, last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced, fresh, finally, in fine, at the last, once for all, as high as Heaven and as deep as hell, deficit omne quod nascitur, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, finem respice, ultimus Romanorum.