Dictionary Definition
expire
Verb
1 lose validity; "My passports expired last
month" [syn: run out]
2 pass from physical life and lose all all bodily
attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went
peacefully" [syn: die,
decease, perish, go, exit, pass away,
pass] [ant: be born]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From etyl la ex- + spiroPronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
Verb
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Translations
die
- German: versterben
- French: expirer
- Swedish: dö, avlida, gå bort
become invalid
to exhale (something)
- German: ausatmen (1)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
advance, be all over, be
annihilated, be destroyed, be done for, be lost, be no more, be
wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow, blow over, breathe, breathe hard, breathe
in, breathe out, cease,
cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, close, come to naught, come to
nothing, conclude,
conk, conk out, continue, cough, croak, decease, demise, depart, depart this life,
die, die away, die out,
disappear, discontinue, dissolve, elapse, emit, end, endure, evacuate, evaporate, exhale, exhaust, expel, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, finish, flee, flit, flow, flow on, fly, fume, gasp, give off, give out, give vent
to, glide, go, go by, go on, go out, gulp, hack, have it, have its time,
hiccup, huff, inhale, inspire, kick off, lapse, last, leave no trace, let out, melt
away, open the floodgates, open the sluices, pant, part, pass, pass away, pass by, pass on,
pass over, peg out, perish, peter out, press on,
proceed, puff, put off mortality, quit this
world, reek, respire, return to dust, roll
on, run, run its course, run
on, run out, sigh, slide, slip, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, steam, stop breathing, succumb, terminate, throw off, up and
die, vanish, vapor, wear away, wear off,
wheeze, yield the
ghost