expire
expire
Definition
ex·pire (ek spīr′, ik-)
transitive verb -·pired′, -·pir′·ing
- to breathe out (air from the lungs)
- Obsolete to give off (an odor, etc.)
Etymology: ME expiren < L exspirare < ex-, out + spirare, to breathe: see spirit
intransitive verb
- to breathe out air
- to breathe one's last breath; die
- to come to an end; terminate; cease the lease expired
expire
Synonyms
expire
v.
expire
Usage Examples
Object
- badge: The only fully expiring ID badge that prints right from your inkjet or laser printer!
- lease: When More's lease expired in 1605, John Holmead began to pay the rent, now £ 10.
- domain: And not because the idea of a registry owning expiring domains is a bad one.
- month: Alert Lists are set to expire 12 months from the date they were created.
Preposition: on
- #1: Comments Comments are either turned off or have expired on this article. #1.
- st: An 8 year tariff would expire on the 21 st February 2001.
- anniversary: By s.25 AHA 1986 the landlord must give at least twelve months notice to quit, expiring on the anniversary of the tenancy.
- date: All passes, whenever issued, will expire on the date shown on the pass.
Preposition: at
- midnight: My contract with the University of Warwick Students ' Union expires at midnight on 31st July.
- end: Fulton's existing contract with the club expires at the end of the season.
Adjective complement
- worthless: If the index falls then the warrant will expire worthless.
Modifying Another Word
- july: A high-deductible health but the difference expire july and the two-year quot.
- automatically: All registrations automatically expire on the 31 December each year.
- ago: Copyright for most old games will have expired long ago.
- since: Outline planning permission was granted for the Phase 1 site in 1994, but this has since expired.
- soon: As the fifteen year lease would soon expire, in 1967, the club learned of the owner's precarious financial position.
- otherwise: The lease may be terminated at 12 months notice and otherwise expires in 2070.
Preposition: after
- days.: Users accounts expire after 30 days. No obligation to renew or continue your subscription.
Used with why or when
- when: And we take credit cards, tho not ones that expire when there isn't an ' R ' in the month.
Preposition: in
- summer: His contract at Molineux would have expired in the summer of 2008.
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