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expire

ik'spaiә8 senses · 7 ms
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verb/ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)//ɛkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
  1. 1

    To die.intransitive

    • The patient expired in hospital.
  2. 2

    To lapse and become invalid.intransitive

    • My library card will expire next week.
  3. 3

    To come to an end; to conclude.intransitive

    • And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]
  4. 4

    To exhale; to breathe out.ambitransitive

    • Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
    • This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
  5. 5

    To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.transitive

    • the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter
  6. 6

    To bring to a close; to terminate.transitive

    • Expire the term / Of a despised life.
  7. 7

    To cause to lapse; to invalidate.transitive

    • The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours.

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