ex-spīrō or expīrō āvī, ātus, āre, to breathe out, emit, blow out, exhale, give out: medios animam in ignīs, O.: flammas pectore, V.: Vis ventorum Exspirare aliquā cupiens, escape, O.

—To breathe one's last, expire: exspirans Adloquitur, with her last breath, V.: ubi exspiravero, H.: inter primam curationem, L.: in pugnā, L.: dentibus apri, Iu.

—Fig., to expire, perish, come to an end, cease: mecum exspiratura res p. erat, L.