expire meaning and definition

EXPIRE verb

Definition of expire (verb)

1. lose validity
   • "My passports expired last month"
   • synonyms: run out
2. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
   • "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: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it
   • antonym: be born
3. expel air
   • "Exhale when you lift the weight"
   • synonyms: breathe out, exhale
   • antonym: breathe in