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

Expiration.

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

The act of expiscating; a fishing.

Tending to fish out; searching out

To give an explanation.

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

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

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

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.

The quality of being explanatory.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

To explain; to unfold.

Accomplishment; fulfillment.

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

In the manner of an expletive.

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

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

Quality of being explicable.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open.

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

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

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

Explicative.

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.

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

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

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

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

One who or that which explodes.

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

The act of exploiting or utilizing.

tending to exploit or make use of.

The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.

That may be explored; as, an explorable region.

To explore.

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.

Exploratory.

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

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

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

The act of exploring; exploration.

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

Employed in, or designed for, exploration.

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.

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

In an explosive manner.

See Exspoliation.

To polish thoroughly.

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

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

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

the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.

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

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation.

Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.

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

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

Exposure.

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

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

One who exposes or discloses.

to set forth reasons; to explain or expound.

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

Serving to explain; expository.

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

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

To discuss; to examine.

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

One who expostulates.

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.

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

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

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

The charge for carrying a parcel by express.

Communicated in words.

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

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.

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

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

an artist who is an adherent of expressionism.

of or pertaining to expressionism (definition 2); as, expressionist art.

Destitute of expression.

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

the quality of being expressive.

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

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

The state or quality of being express; definiteness.

The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful.

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

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.

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

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

Capable of being expugned.

The act of taking by assault; conquest.

One who expugns.

To drive out; to expel.

An expeller.

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

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

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

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.

deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.

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

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

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

One who expurgates or purifies.

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.

Expurgatory.

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

To purge away.

To search into or out.

One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought.