Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 69

Expire (v. t.) To bring to a close; to terminate.

Expire (v. i.) To emit the breath.

Expire (v. i.) To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

Expire (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

Expire (v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.

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

Expiring (a.) Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

Expiry (n.) Expiration.

Expiscate (v. t.) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.

Expiscation (n.) The act of expiscating; a fishing.

Expiscatory (a.) Tending to fish out; searching out

Explained (imp. & p. p.) of Explain

Explaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explain

Explain (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

Explain (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

Explain (v. i.) To give an explanation.

Explainable (a.) Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

Explainer (n.) One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Explanate (a.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

Explanation (n.) 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.

Explanation (n.) That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.

Explanation (n.) The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.

Explanation (n.) A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.

Explanative (a.) Explanatory.

Explanatoriness (n.) The quality of being explanatory.

Explanatory (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Explat (v. t.) Alt. of Explate

Explate (v. t.) To explain; to unfold.

Expletion (n.) Accomplishment; fulfillment.

Expletive (a.) Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.

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

Expletively (adv.) In the manner of an expletive.

Expletory (a.) Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.

Explicable (a.) Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Explicableness (n.) Quality of being explicable.

Explicate (a.) Evolved; unfolded.

Explicated (imp. & p. p.) of Explicate

Explicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explicate

Explicate (v. t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.

Explicate (v. t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

Explication (n.) The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

Explication (n.) The sense given by an expositor.

Explicative (a.) Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.

Explicator (n.) One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Explicatory (a.) Explicative.

Explicit (a.) A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

Explicit (a.) 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.

Explicit (a.) Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.

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

Explicitness (n.) The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Exploded (imp. & p. p.) of Explode

Exploding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explode

Explode (v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

Explode (v. i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

Explode (v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.

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

Explode (v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.

Explode (v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.

Explode (v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.

Explodent (n.) An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

Explodent (n.) See Explosive, n., 2.

Exploder (n.) One who or that which explodes.

Exploder (n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.

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

Exploit (n.) Combat; war.

Exploit (n.) To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.

Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

Exploitation (n.) The act of exploiting or utilizing.

Exploiture (n.) The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.

Exploiture (n.) Exploitation.

Explorable (a.) That may be explored; as, an explorable region.

Explorate (v. t.) To explore.

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

Exploration (n.) physical examination.

Explorative (a.) Exploratory.

Explorator (n.) One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

Exploratory (a.) Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.

Explored (imp. & p. p.) of Explore

Exploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explore

Explore (v. t.) To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

Explore (v. t.) To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.

Explorement (n.) The act of exploring; exploration.

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

Eploring (a.) Employed in, or designed for, exploration.

Explosion (n.) 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.

Explosion (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.

Explosion (n.) A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath.

Explosive (a.) Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.

Explosive (n.) An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.

Explosive (n.) A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã 155-7, 184.]

Explosively (adv.) In an explosive manner.

Expoliation (n.) See Exspoliation.

Expolish (v. t.) To polish thoroughly.

Expone (v. t.) To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.

Exponent (n.) 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

Exponent (n.) One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.

Exponential (a.) Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.

Exported (imp. & p. p.) of Export

Exporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Export

Export (v. t.) To carry away; to remove.

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