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expire

/ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/verb2 syllables

Expire means: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.

Synonyms for expire37

verb, as in pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off
and 10 more, choke, croak, snuff it, fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, break, break down

verb, as in expel air

exhale, breathe out

verb, as in lose validity

run out

also used for expire

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

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What does expire mean?3

verb

1

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life“She died from cancer”

2

expel air“Exhale when you lift the weight”

3

lose validity“My passports expired last month”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with expire?12

one syllable

diretyreshiresquireireskierspire
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Expire in a sentence

  • Fun fact, baking powder expires every few years so you should always use fresh.DylanTonic
  • When a poison expires, does it become more poisonous or less poisonous?Ooneykcall
  • If your visa expires, you must leave the country.CK
  • We don't have much time, the deadline expires tomorrow.carlosalberto
  • My visa is going to expire in three months.CK
  • This insurance contract will expire at the end of the month.jaydenms
  • What will become of our close relations if the bilateral security treaty expires?unknown
  • My driver's license expires at the end of this month.CK

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of expire

as a verb

past tense
expired
present participle
expiring
third-person singular
expires
past participle
expired