Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-PIR-ING
EX-PIR-ING, ppr.
- Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
- adj. Pertaining to or uttered at the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans. J. Lathrop.
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