verb
- Lose validity.
- usage: "My passports expired last month"
- Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
- Expel air.
- usage: "Exhale when you lift the weight"
- synonyms: exhale, expire, breathe out
adjective
- Having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time.
- usage: "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license"
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