Verb: expire ik'spI(-u)r or ek'spI(-u)r
- Lose validity
"My passports expired last month";
- run out
- Cease to live
"The patient expired peacefully";
- die, decease [archaic], perish, go, exit, pass away, pass, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], conk [informal], give up the ghost [informal], drop dead [informal], pop off [informal], croak [informal], snuff it [informal], cash in [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], flatline [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], pass on
- Expel air
"She expired deeply after the exercise";
- exhale, breathe out
Derived forms: expiring, expires, expired
Type of: breathe, change state, discontinue, respire, suspire [literary], take a breath, turn
Encyclopedia: Expire