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expended

nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.

Expenditor

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.

Expenditure

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

Expense

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Expensive

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

Experience

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

experienced

Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

Experientialism

The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.

Experientialist

One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

Experiment

To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.

Experimental

Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

experimentalism

an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

Experimentalist

One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.

Experimentarian

Relying on experiment or experience. One who relies on experiment or experience.

Experimenter

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.

Expertly

In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

Expertness

Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Expetible

Worthy of being wished for; desirable.

Expiable

Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

Expiation

The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.

Expiator

One who makes expiation or atonement.

Expiatory

Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.

Expilation

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.

Expilator

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.

Expirable

That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

Expiration

The act of expiring The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

expiration-dated

bearing a date after which it is no longer valid or salable; -- of a security, option, or perishable item.

Expiratory

Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

expired

having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license. Opposite of unexpired.

Expiring

Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

Expiscate

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.

Explainable

Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

Explainer

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Explanate

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

Explanation

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

Explanatory

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Expletive

A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.

Expletory

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.

Explicable

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Explication

The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

Explicative

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.

Explicator

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Explicit

Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. Opposite of implicit.

Explicitly

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.

Explicitness

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Explode

To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.

Explodent

An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

Exploit

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

Exploiture

The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.

Explorable

That may be explored; as, an explorable region.

Exploration

The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries physical examination.

Explorator

One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

Exploratory

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.

Explore

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

Explorer

One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

Exploring

Employed in, or designed for, exploration.

Explosion

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp, etc.

Explosive

An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.

Expone

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.

Exponent

A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated

Exponential

Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.

exponentiation

the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.

Export

The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

Exportability

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation.

Exportable

Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.

Exportation

The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.

Exporter

One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.

Expose

A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

exposed

with no protection or shield; as, the exposed northeast frontier.

Exposedness

The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.

Exposer

One who exposes or discloses.

exposit

to set forth reasons; to explain or expound.

Exposition

The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

Expositor

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.

Expository

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

Expostulation

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.

Expostulatory

Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.

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