expires

Verb

expire (third-person singular simple present expires, present participle expiring, simple past and past participle expired)

1. (intransitive) To die.
   • The patient expired in hospital.

   Synonyms:

   assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit

2. (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
   • My library card will expire next week.

   Synonyms:

   run out

3. (intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
   • And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 20:7
4. (ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
   • Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

   Antonyms:

   inspire

5. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
   • the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
6. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
   • Expire the term / Of a despised life.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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