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Expire

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Verb group 8

Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Die 84% connected

of Dice

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Die 84% connected

of Dice

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 13

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Asphyxiate 76% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Drown 76% connected

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fall 76% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Famish 76% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Predecease 76% connected

To die sooner than.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Snort 76% connected

To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Succumb 76% connected

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 5

Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discontinue 76% connected

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Respire 76% connected

To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suspire 76% connected

To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Death 74% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Death 74% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 9

Choke 92% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Croak 92% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Decease 92% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Die 92% connected

of Dice

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exhale 92% connected

To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exit 92% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perish 92% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Inspire 94% connected

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Inspire 94% connected

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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