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Expire

//ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die. intransitive

    "The patient expired in hospital."

  2. 2
    expel air wordnet
  3. 3
    To lapse and become invalid. intransitive

    "My library card will expire next week."

  4. 4
    pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life wordnet
  5. 5
    To come to an end; to conclude. intransitive

    "And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]"

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  1. 6
    lose validity wordnet
  2. 7
    To exhale; to breathe out. ambitransitive

    "Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air."

  3. 8
    To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles. transitive

    "the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter"

  4. 9
    To bring to a close; to terminate. transitive

    "Expire the term / Of a despised life."

  5. 10
    To cause to lapse; to invalidate. transitive

    "The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours."

Etymology

From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).

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