expire
expire Lexical Profile
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• verb
To come to an end or cease to be valid after a fixed period of time (of a document, contract, authorization, or perishable item).
"Please renew your passport at least six months before it is scheduled to expire."
To breathe one's last breath; to die (used in formal, literary, or clinical contexts).
"The elderly monarch expired peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his family."
To exhale air from the lungs (used primarily in medical and physiological contexts).
"The respiratory therapist measured the volume of air the patient could forcibly expire in one second."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French expirer, from Latin exspirare ('to breathe out, blow out, breathe one's last'), formed from ex- ('out') and spirare ('to breathe').