expire

ex·pire

E0287600 (ĭk-spīr′)v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires v.intr.1. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired.2. To breathe one's last breath; die: The patient expired early this morning.3. To exhale; breathe out.v.tr.1. To breathe (something) out.2. Archaic To give (something) off.

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[Middle English expiren, from Old French expirer, from Latin exspīrāre : ex-, ex- + spīrāre, to breathe.]

expire

(ɪkˈspaɪə) vb1. (intr) to finish or run out; cease; come to an end2. (Physiology) to breathe out (air); exhale3. (intr) to die[C15: from Old French expirer, from Latin exspīrāre to breathe out, from spīrāre to breathe] exˈpirer n

ex•pire

(ɪkˈspaɪ^ər)

v. -pired, -pir•ing. v.i. 1. to come to an end; terminate. 2. to emit the last breath; die. 3. to breathe out. v.t. 4. to breathe out (air) from the lungs. 5. Archaic. to emit. [1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin ex(s)pīrāre to breathe out, come to an end =ex- ex-¹ + spīrāre to breathe] ex•pir′er, n.

expire

Past participle: expired
Gerund: expiring

Imperative
expire
expire

Present
I expire
you expire
he/she/it expires
we expire
you expire
they expire

Preterite
I expired
you expired
he/she/it expired
we expired
you expired
they expired

Present Continuous
I am expiring
you are expiring
he/she/it is expiring
we are expiring
you are expiring
they are expiring

Present Perfect
I have expired
you have expired
he/she/it has expired
we have expired
you have expired
they have expired

Past Continuous
I was expiring
you were expiring
he/she/it was expiring
we were expiring
you were expiring
they were expiring

Past Perfect
I had expired
you had expired
he/she/it had expired
we had expired
you had expired
they had expired

Future
I will expire
you will expire
he/she/it will expire
we will expire
you will expire
they will expire

Future Perfect
I will have expired
you will have expired
he/she/it will have expired
we will have expired
you will have expired
they will have expired

Future Continuous
I will be expiring
you will be expiring
he/she/it will be expiring
we will be expiring
you will be expiring
they will be expiring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been expiring
you have been expiring
he/she/it has been expiring
we have been expiring
you have been expiring
they have been expiring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been expiring
you will have been expiring
he/she/it will have been expiring
we will have been expiring
you will have been expiring
they will have been expiring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been expiring
you had been expiring
he/she/it had been expiring
we had been expiring
you had been expiring
they had been expiring

Conditional
I would expire
you would expire
he/she/it would expire
we would expire
you would expire
they would expire

Past Conditional
I would have expired
you would have expired
he/she/it would have expired
we would have expired
you would have expired
they would have expired

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	expire - lose validity; "My passports expired last month"run outdiscontinue - come to or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"
	2.	expire - 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"croak, decease, die, drop dead, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, passabort - cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"buy it, pip out - be killed or die;drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"predecease - die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband"conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go - stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"starve, famish - die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"die - suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed
	3.	expire - expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"breathe out, exhalebreathe, take a breath, suspire, respire - draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"snort - make a snorting sound by exhaling hard; "The critic snorted contemptuously"blow - exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down"

expire

verb1. become invalid, end, finish, conclude, close, stop, run out, cease, lapse, terminate, come to an end, be no longer valid He continued to live in the States after his visa had expired.2. die, decease, depart, buy it (U.S. slang), check out (U.S. slang), perish, kick it (slang), croak (slang), go belly-up (slang), snuff it (informal), peg out (informal), kick the bucket (informal), peg it (informal), depart this life, meet your maker, cark it (Austral. & N.Z. slang), pop your clogs (informal), pass away or on He expired in excruciating agony.

expire

verb1. To become void, especially through passage of time or an omission:lapse, run out.2. To cease to exist:die (away or out), disappear.3. To cease living:decease, demise, depart, die, drop, go, pass away, pass (on), perish, succumb.Informal: pop off.Slang: check out, croak, kick in, kick off.Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end, pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes.4. To expel air in the process of respiration:breathe (out), exhale.

Translations

期满死亡失效

expire

(ikˈspaiə) verb1. (of a limited period of time) to come to an end. His three weeks' leave expires tomorrow. 期滿 期满2. (of a ticket, licence etc) to go out of date. My driving licence expired last month. 失效 失效3. to die. 死亡 死亡expiration (ekspiˈreiʃən) noun 到期，失效 终止，失效 exˈpiry noun the end of a period of time or of an agreement etc with a time limit. The date of expiry is shown on your driving licence. 滿期，截止 满期，逾期

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