Expire

Definitions: Expire

Expire

Verb

1. Lose validity; "My passports expired last month".

2. Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully".

3. Expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "expire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Finance

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Synonyms: Expire

Course

Run out, expire; go by, pass by; be -past.

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

End

Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

Crosswords: Expire

French (expires).

If you once again try to harm me or one of my companions, my patience with you will expire. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Aspire to inspire before you expire. (references; author: unknown)

Time to Expire (1929)

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Books

• Kicking the Bucket: From the Common to the Curious, a Look at the Way People Expire (reference)

• Où le silence expire (reference)

• Waiting To Expire : The Incoherent Ramblings of an Inebriated Soul (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. (reference)

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It is humiliating to expire.

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Business

The sanitary registry will expire after five years from the day of issuance, being renewable on request of the interested party. (references)

Tele2 (Levicom Broadband) and Uninet will start offering telephone services after the special rights of Estonian Telephone Co. Expire. (references)

Many licenses for TV broadcasting will expire in 2000. The National Council for TV and Radio Broadcasting doesn't plan to renew expired licenses automatically, but to tender licenses for channels, which become available. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

Those registering would be issued an identity card and given a 6-month residence permit, which was allowed to expire. (references)

Germany

For the remaining Bosnians and Kosovars, once their residence permits expire, they may be deported, although some exceptions were made for certain vulnerable groups, such as members of ethnic minorities, including Serbs, Roma, Ashkalia, and Muslim Slavs. (references)

Economic History

Romania

Otherwise the changes do not grandfather any other past incentives - many of which were due to expire in any case. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Equally long delays allowed many cases of torture and lesser charges to expire due to statutes of limitations. (references)

Czech Republic

Although the statute of limitations for many of the Communist-era crimes under investigation by the UDV was set to expire in 2000, Parliament voted in December 1999 to suspend the statute of limitations for serious crimes committed during the Communist regime, which enabled the UDV to continue investigating these cases. (references)

Minorities

Fiji

A number of agricultural landlord and tenant agreement leases have expired, and many more will expire in the next few years. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

Renewal and enhancement of the Andean Trade Preference Act, scheduled to expire in December of 2001, is a top Colombian priority. (references)

HUNGARY

Hungary did not provide product patents (only process patents) for pharmaceuticals before 1994, and examples exist of domestic generic drugs coming to market before process patents expire. (references)

BRAZIL

The measure was originally due to expire at the end of 2000. A half-percentage point decrease was agreed to by Mercosur members effective January 2001, and an additional one percentage point decrease will take place on January 1, 2002, with the remaining one percentage point decrease likely taking place in 2003. (references)

Political Rights

Jordan

If the Government amends or enacts a law when Parliament is not in session, it must submit the law to Parliament for consideration during the next session; however, such "temporary" laws do not expire and, while technically subject to action by Parliament when it returns to session, may in practice remain in force without legislative approval. (references)

Trade

Peru

Both treaties expire at the end of 2001, coinciding with the expected start date of the agreement with Mercosur. (references)

Uruguay

Separate free trade arrangements for certain products are also in effect with Brazil and Argentina, but will expire in 2001. (references)

Travel

Colombia

Potential travelers to the United States should be encouraged to apply for a visa well in advance of their trip and, once they have obtained their visas, should keep them current, not allowing them to expire. (references)

Worker Rights

Andorra

When job contracts expire, temporary workers must leave the country. (references)

Oman

It covers domestic servants and construction workers but not temporary workers or those with work contracts that expire within 3 months. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "expire": to expire. Additional references.

Afrikaan

sterf (die, march off, pass away, retreat, withdraw), ophou (cease, come to an end, end, end up, stop), eindig (accomodate, come to an end, end, end up, finish, terminate). (various references)

Albanian

vdes (be dying, burst, croak, decease, depart, die, die away, die down, do in, end, evaporate, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), shuhem (be dying, burn out, die, die out, evanesce, fade, fade out, fizzle out, vanish, wear away, wear off, wither), nxjerr frymë (exhale), mbaron afati, humb fuqi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مات (check in, check out, croak, decease, depart, die, die off, end, give up the ghost, go west, pass away, pass on, peg out, perish, rest in peace, snuff it, snuff out, succumb), ‏لفظ النفس الأخير, ‏تنقضى, ‏سلم الروح (yield), ‏زفر (breathe, exhale, expel), ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умирам (be dying, cash in, conk, cross the styx, depart, die, end, exit, fade away, go under, go west, kick in, kick off, kick up, mortify, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, peg out, pip out, pop off, quit the scene, snuff out, step off, step out, succumb, sup with pluto, wither), губя валидност, изтичам (determine, escape, finish, issue, leak, outflow, run, run off, run out, sluice, wear through), издъхвам (pass on), издишвам (breathe out, exhale, undraw). (various references)

Chinese 

絕氣 , 滿期 , 到期 (Expired, Expiring). (various references)

Czech

ztratit platnost, zemřít (die, pass away, perish), vypršet (elapse), vydechnout naposledy, uplynout (elapse, go by, intervene, lapse), propadnout (fail, fall through, flunk, lapse, surrender), konèit (be over, come to an end, end, go out, result). (various references)

Danish

dø (die, pass away). (various references)

Dutch

uitgaan (come to an end, end, end up, exit, go out, to extinguish, to go out), ophouden (cease, come to an end, detain, end, end up, extend, hold back, retain, stop, strech out), eindigen (come to an end, end, end up, terminate), aflopen (come to an end, cover, draining of the furnace, end, end up, go through, pass through, peal, ring, stoop, tapping, to expire, to fall due, to mature). (various references)

Esperanto

morti (die, pass away), finiĝi (come to an end, end, end up). (various references)

Faeroese

verða endaður (come to an end, end, end up), doyggja (die, pass away). (various references)

Farsi 

مردن (Decease, Demise, Dying, Passaway, Perish, Quail), سپری شدن (Elapse, Pass, Passage), سرامدن (Elite), دم براوردن (Exhale), بپایان رسیدن (Peter). (various references)

Finnish

kuolla (die, pass away). (various references)

French

mourir, expirer, décéder. (various references)

Frisian

stjerre (die, pass away), ferstjerre (die, pass away), deagean (die, pass away), beteare (come to an end, end, end up). (various references)

German

verfallen (addicted, be forfeited, become addicted, become dilapidated, become enslaved, become invalid, damaged, decay, decline, degradation, deteriorate, die, dilapidated, emaciated, expired, fall, fall into disrepair, fall off, invalid, lapse, lapsed, ruined, ruinous, senile, to decay, to expire, tumble down, waste), enden (accomodate, cease, come to an end, end, end up, ends, finish, run out, terminate, to conclude (with), to end, upshots, wind up). (various references)

Greek 

λήγω (fall in, mature, terminate). (various references)

Hebrew 

למות (decease, die, go west, perish, succumb), לפו�' (be benumbered, disappear, end, evaporate, grow faint), ל�"�'מר (be finished, eventuate, give out, run out), ל�'וע (die, pine away). (various references)

Hungarian

meghal (decease, die, pass out, to be no more, to bung, to buy the farm, to cash in one's chips, to cross the river, to cross the river of death, to decease, to depart, to depart this life, to die, to exit, to get killed, to give up the ghost, to go bung, to go home, to go off, to go pop, to go the way of all flesh, to go the way of all things, to go to one's long home, to join the majority, to lay down one's knife and fork, to pass away, to pass on, to pass out, to pop out, to shuffle off, to shuffle off one's mortal coil, to slip the painter, to suffer death, to yield the ghost, to yield up one's soul, to yield up the ghost), lejár (fall due on, finish, run down, to be due, to become forfeited, to expire, to fall due, to mature, to run down, to run out), kialszik (blow out, die out, to blow out, to burn out, to die out, to expire). (various references)

Indonesian

berakhir (become extinct, come to an end, end). (various references)

Italian

morire (die, die away, die down, die out, end, fade, fail, go out, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, spoil). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

エキス剤 (COMBINE, eccentric, ecstasy, Ecuador, ecumenism, equitable, equity, equity finance, Excalibur, Excelan, excellent, exchange, exchange order, excursion, excursion fare, excursion ticket, excuse me, executor, exercise, exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, exorcist, exotic, exoticism, exotisme, expedition, expense, expensive, explorer, explosion, explosion shot, export, express, expression, expressway, extension, extent, exterior, external, extract, literature). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

エクスパイア . (various references)

Korean 

만료되십시�". (various references)

Malay

berakhir (come to an end, end, end up). (various references)

Manx

mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off), lhiggey magh ennal (exhalation, exhale, expiration), cheet gys jerrey (peter out). (various references)

Norwegian

utlope (come to an end, end, end up). (various references)

Papiamen

muri (die, pass away), fayesé (die, pass away), caba (come to an end, end, end up). (various references)

Pig Latin

expireay

Polish

umierać. (various references)

Portuguese

morrer (bump off, decease, depart, die, do for, exit visa, go, kick the habit, part, pass away, pass degree, perish, succumb, tip off), acabar (accomodate, buzz, carry through, cease, come to an end, conclude, consummate, end, finish, phase out, round, squelch, terminate). (various references)

Romanian

muri (croak, decease, depart, die, drop off, get off the hooks, go, go west, hop the perch, kick in, pack up, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, suffer). (various references)

Russian 

угасать, умирать (be dying, die, died, part, perish, waste away), кончаться (determine, end, eventuate, finish, result, run out, terminate), выдыхать (breathe, exhale), истечь. (various references)

Scottish

eug (death, he died, perish : dh'eug e). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastareti (become obsolete, become old-fashioned, superannuate), umreti (depart, die, pass away, pop off), proteći (flow, pass, run out), isteći (escape, lapse, run out). (various references)

Spanish

morir (be lost, demise, die, die out, gangrene, go out, kill, pass away), expirar (come to an end, die, end, end up, fall in, to expire, to fall due, to mature), terminarse (come to an end, end, end up, terminate). (various references)

Sranan

kraperi (die, pass away), kaba (already, by now, come to an end, conclusion, end, end up, ending, yet), dede (blunt, dead, die, late, pass away). (various references)

Swedish

upphöra (cease, come to an end, desist, end, finish off, finish up, give up, go, lapse, pass, pass over, stop), dö (choke, decease, die, kick the bucket, pass away, pass hence, pass out, pay the debt of nature, pip out). (various references)

Turkish

ölmek (belly up, bite the dust, cash in, choke, conk, croak, cross the styx, cut up, decease, depart, die, end, exit, gasp one's life out, give up the ghost, go, go belly up, go hence, go the way of all flesh, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's chips, hop the twig, kick the bucket, pass away, pass in, pass out, pay one's debt to nature, peg out, perish, pip, pip out, pop off, return to dust, snuff it, succumb, yield up the ghost). (various references)

Ukranian 

видихати (breathe out, exhale). (various references)

Welsh

trengi (die, perish), marw (dead, die, pass away). (various references)

Yucatec

kimil (die, pass away). (various references)

Zulu

-shona (die, pass away), -gcina (come to an end, conserve, end, end up, keep, maintain, preserve). (various references)

exeam, exeamus, exeant, exeas, exeat, exeatis, exeunt, exeunte, exeuntem, exeuntes, exeunti, exeuntibus, exi, exibimus, exibis, exibit, exibitis, exibunt, exiebant, exiebat, exiens, exient, exientes, exierant, exieras, exierat, exierint, exieris, exierit, exieritis, exierunt, exies, exiet, exiit, exire, exirent, exires, exiret, exissent, exisset, existi, existis, exit, exite, exitu, exitum, exitus, exivi, exivit, expirare, exspirasset, exspiravit, morere, moreremur, morerentur, moreretur, moreris, mori, moria, moriamini, moriamur, moriantur, moriar, moriaris, moriatur, moriebatur, moriemini, moriemur, moriendi, moriendum, moriens, morientem, morientes, morientis, morientium, morientur, morieris, morietur, morimur, morior, moritur, moritura, morituros, moriturum, moriturus, moriuntur, mortua, mortuae, mortuam, mortuaque, mortui, mortuique, mortuis, mortuisque, mortuo, mortuorum, mortuos, mortuum, mortuus, mortuusque. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "expire": expired, expirer, expirers, expires. (additional references)

Words containing "expire": unexpired. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Expire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: axire, enpire, epare, excire, exir, exire, exoire, Expamet, exper, experean, expiery, expir, expirt, expirte, expite, expre, exprix, expsrh, expsrl. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: peer, peri, pier, pree, prex, ripe.

-3 letters: ere, ire, pee, per, pie, pix, ree, rei, rep, rex, rip.

-4 letters: er, ex, pe, pi, re, xi.

+1 letter: expired, expirer, expires, prexies.

+2 letters: diplexer, expirers, expiries, inexpert, peroxide, precieux, preexist, prefixed, prefixes, premixed, premixes.

+3 letters: diplexers, expediter, expeditor, experting, expertise, expertism, expertize, explainer, exploiter, extirpate, inexperts, peroxided, peroxides, preexilic, preexists, priedieux, triplexes, unexpired, xerophile.

+4 letters: ciphertext, excerpting, excerption, exospheric, expatriate, expediters, expeditors, experience, experiment, expertises, expertisms, expertized, expertizes, explainers, exploiters, expressing, expression, expressive, externship, extirpated, extirpates, inexpertly, peroxidase, peroxisome, perplexing, perplexity, preexisted, pretexting, pyroxenite, reexposing, superfixes, superhelix, superoxide.

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