expire

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   lose validity

   My passports expired last month

2. 2
   verb

   To die.

   The patient expired in hospital.

3. 3
   verb

   To lapse and become invalid.

   My library card will expire next week.

4. 4
   verb

   To come to an end; to conclude.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To exhale; to breathe out.

   Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.

6. 6
   verb

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

   the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter

7. 7
   verb

   To bring to a close; to terminate.

   Expire the term / Of a despised life.

8. 8
   verb

   To cause to lapse; to invalidate.

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

Etymology

From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).