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expireexpire /ɪkˈspaɪɚ/ ●○○ verb [intransitive] ETYMOLOGYexpireOrigin: 1300-1400 French expirer, from Latin exspirare, from spirare to breathe VERB TABLEexpire |
Present | I, you, we, they | expire | | he, she, it | expires | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | expired | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have expired | | he, she, it | has expired | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had expired | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will expire | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have expired |
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Present | I | am expiring | | he, she, it | is expiring | | you, we, they | are expiring | Past | I, he, she, it | was expiring | | you, we, they | were expiring | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been expiring | | he, she, it | has been expiring | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been expiring | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be expiring | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been expiring |
1if a document, agreement, contract, etc. expires, it cannot be legally used anymore: expire on/at/in My driver’s license expires on October 12.2if a period of time when someone has a particular authority expires, it ends: The mayor’s term of office expires at the end of March.3literary to die4formal to breathe out air SYN exhale |