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expire::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| Type of | change state, turn |
| Has types | abort, asphyxiate, buy it, drown, fall, famish, pip out, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, yield |
| Verb group | die, fail, break, give out, give way, go, go bad, conk out, break down |
| Derivation | expiration |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breathe out, exhale |
| Type of | suspire, respire, take a breath, breathe |
| Has types | snort, blow |
| Derivation | expiration, expiratory |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | run out |
| Type of | discontinue |
| Derivation | expiration |
My passports expired last month.
Examples of expire
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Fuel wood permits will be available beginning Wednesday and will expire Dec. 31.
From the sacbee.com
The operating licenses are set to expire in 2013 and 2015, according to the NRC.
From the bloomberg.com
Before futures contracts expire, funds must trade out of them and into new ones.
From the online.wsj.com
If the Bush tax cuts expire, how can you protect your portfolio before year end?
From the online.wsj.com
Contracts with 19 of the county's 27 bargaining units are set to expire June 30.
From the sacbee.com
His contract will expire at a time when the team recognizes it must get younger.
From the denverpost.com
The last time it was issued was April 16, 2010, and is set to expire on Oct. 15.
From the thenewstribune.com
Thanks to recent rule changes, gift cards cannot expire for at least five years.
From the delawareonline.com
He says the hotel chain never notified him that the points were about to expire.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Run out: lose validity; "My passports expired last month"
- Die: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
- Exhale: expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"
- (expired) having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license"
- (expiration) termination: a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license"
- (expiration) passing: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
- Expired is a 2008 comedy-drama film and is the first writer-director credit for Cecilia Miniucchi, whose previous credits include the documentary on the work of artist Hermann Nitsch entitled "Nitsch 1998". ...
- (Expiration (film)) Expiration (2004) is an independent feature film written, directed and starring Gavin Heffernan. It was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Best Film at the Canadian Filmmakers' Festival.
- (Expiration (options)) For an option contract, expiration is the date on which the contract expires. The option holder must elect to exercise the option or allow it to expire worthless.
