expire
Verb
Verb Forms: expired, expiring, expires
- To come to an end; cease to be valid.
- lose validity
- "My passports expired last month"
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- expel air
- To die.
- To lapse and become invalid.
- To come to an end; to conclude.
- To exhale; to breathe out.
- To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- To bring to a close; to terminate.
Examples
- His turn would expire if he didn’t play a word within the time limit.
- My library card will expire next week.
- The patient expired in hospital.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).
Synonyms
breathe out, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exhale, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, run out, snuff it, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, cark it, cash in, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, expire, flatline, forfare, get to be like the one, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go out, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick off, knock off, liquidate, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay nature's debt, pay the debt of nature, peg out, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost
Scrabble Score: 15
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