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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.

Exposure

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

Expound

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.

Expounder

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

Express

To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.

Expressage

The charge for carrying a parcel by express.

Expressible

Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered.

Expression

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

Expressional

Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.

expressionism

an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.

Expressive

Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.

Expressly

In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.

Expressman

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon.

Expressness

The state or quality of being express; definiteness.

Expressure

The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.

Exprobrate

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.

Expropriate

To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.

expropriated

taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.

Expropriation

The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.

Expugn

To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

Expulsion

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

Expulsive

Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

Expunction

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.

Expunge

To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

expunging

deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.

Expurgate

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

expurgated

having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.

Expurgation

The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

Expurgatory

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.

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