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/ ɪkˈspaɪə r / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object), ex·pired, ex·pir·ing. to come to an end; terminate, as a contract, guarantee, or offer.
to emit the last breath; die.
to breathe out.
to die out, as a fire.
verb (used with object), ex·pired, ex·pir·ing. to breathe out; emit (air) from the lungs.
Archaic . to give off, emit, or eject.
Origin of expire 1375–1425; late Middle English <Latin ex (s )pīrāre to breathe out, equivalent to ex- ex-1 + spīrāre to breathe
OTHER WORDS FROM expire ex·pir·er, noun ex·pir·ing·ly, adverb non·ex·pir·ing, adjective un·ex·pired, adjective
un·ex·pir·ing, adjective
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Example sentences from the Web for expire The $300 weekly enhanced unemployment benefit replaces the $600 enhanced benefit that expire d the week ending July 25.
These are the states that accepted Trump’s offer for $300 enhanced unemployment benefits | Lance Lambert| August 18, 2020| Fortune
He remembers watching birds expire in midair as they flew from one side of the plant to the other.
Unmade in America | Tate Ryan-Mosley| August 14, 2020| MIT Technology Review
No one is getting that $600 payment right now, though, since it expire d at the end of July and Congress is still deadlocked over whether to extend it.
Yes, Unemployment Fell. But The Recovery Seems To Be Slowing Down. | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com)| August 7, 2020| FiveThirtyEight
America and Russia updated that treaty when it was to expire in 2009.
Butterfly Effect: The Next Nuclear Race Is Starting | Charu Kasturi| August 6, 2020| Ozy
Expanded unemployment benefits keeping the economy turning over expire on July 31, one-time checks to families are long spent, and there is still no coordinated federal plan to test for the coronavirus.
Republicans fret over coronavirus lawsuits amid economic collapse | Tim Fernholz| July 22, 2020| Quartz
Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.
The Back Alley, Low Blow-Ridden Fight to Stop Gay Marriage in Florida Is Finally Over | Jay Michaelson| January 5, 2015| DAILY BEAST
The temporary reduction of Social Security payroll taxes was allowed to expire in early 2013.
The Battle of the Deficit Bulge Has Been Won | Daniel Gross| October 6, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Those negotiations are set to expire at the end of November.
Iran Orders Elite Troops: Lay Off U.S. Forces in Iraq | Eli Lake| October 6, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Advocates stress that vets would suffer if the program were to expire in September.
Dysfunctional Congress Prepares to Claim Another Victim: Injured Veterans | Tim Mak| July 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Patents, may I remind you, expire after 20 years, but copyrights to recordings can be enforced for a century or more.
Apple Wants Beats So It Can Control You | Ted Gioia| May 12, 2014| DAILY BEAST
In this condition he may perhaps live twelve hours, without any sensible pulse or heat, and then expire .
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles Creighton
Everywhere our troops in the field, whose terms of three years will expire this spring, are re-enlisting for the war.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital | John Beauchamp Jones
The copyrights of Milton's great works would, according to my noble friend's plan, expire in 1699.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) | Thomas Babington Macaulay
The colonel did not expire immediately, but was carried back into the station, while preparations were made for defence.
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 | Various
They would languish from this day, and might expire even in their cradle.
First History of New Brunswick | Peter Fisher
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British Dictionary definitions for expire verb (intr) to finish or run out; cease; come to an end
to breathe out (air); exhale
(intr) to die
Derived forms of expire expirer , noun Word Origin for expire C15: from Old French expirer, from Latin exspīrāre to breathe out, from spīrāre to breathe
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Words related to expire quit, finish, depart, conclude, die, lapse, terminate, cease, pass, close, run out, pass away, decease, elapse, end, perish, stop, go, croak, exhale
Medical definitions for expire v. To breathe one's last breath; die.
To exhale.
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