expire
Collocations
1(verb.)
VERB + EXPIRE
be due to
Your passport is due to expire next month, so you should renew it soon.
Definitions
verb
To die.
The patient expired in hospital.
And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.
To lapse and become invalid.
My library card will expire next week.
To come to an end; to conclude.
And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]
To exhale; to breathe out.
Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter
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Example Bank
6The patient expired in hospital.
WiktionaryAnd then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.
WiktionaryHippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound,
WiktionaryMy driver's license will expire next week.
Tatoeba · #250466The contract will expire soon.
Tatoeba · #2442561Tom's driver's license will expire next month.
Tatoeba · #2537834