expire
verb
1 expire
Lose validity:
— My passports expired last month.
synonym: run out.
Roget 109:
elapse,
lapse,
flow,
run,
proceed,
advance,
pass;
roll on,
wear on,
press on;
flit,
fly,
slip,
slide,
glide;
run its course.
run out,
expire;
go by,
pass by;
be past
etc.
122.
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Dutch: expireren, verlopen
2 expire
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
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 ... show more.
Roget 67:
end,
close,
finish,
terminate,
conclude,
be all over;
expire;
die
etc.
360;
come-,
draw-to-a-close
etc.
n.;
have run its course;
run out,
pass away.
bring to an end
etc.
n.;
put an end to,
make an end of;
determine;
get through;
achieve
etc.
(complete)
729;
stop
etc.
(make to cease)
142;
shut up shop;
hang up one's fiddle.
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Roget 360:
die,
expire,
perish;
meet one's death,
meet one's end;
pass away,
be taken;
yield one's breath,
resign one's breath;
resign one's being,
resign one's life;
end one's days,
end one's life,
end one's earthly career;
breathe one's last;
cease to live,
cease to breathe;
depart this life;
be no more
etc.
adj.;
go off,
drop off,
pop off;
lose one's life,
lay down one's life,
relinquish one's life,
surrender one's life;
drop into the grave,
sink into the grave;
close one's eyes;
fall dead,
drop dead,
fall down dead,
drop down dead;
break one's neck;
give up the ghost,
yield up the ghost;
be all over with one.
pay the debt to nature,
shuffle off this mortal coil,
take one's last sleep;
go the way of all flesh;
hand in one's checks,
pass in one's checks,
hand in one's chips,
pass in one's chips [U.S.];
join the greater number,
join the majority;
come to dust,
turn to dust;
cross the Stygian ferry,
cross the bar;
go to one's long account,
go to one's last home,
go to Davy Jones's locker,
go to the wall;
receive one's death warrant,
make one's will,
step out,
die a natural death,
go out like the snuff of a candle;
come to an untimely end;
catch one's death;
go off the hooks,
kick the bucket,
buy the farm,
hop the twig,
turn up one's toes;
die a violent death
etc.
(be killed)
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Dutch: de pijp aan Maarten geven, vergaan, omkomen, creperen, doodgaan, expireren, heengaan, inslapen, insluimeren, kapotgaan, ontslapen, overlijden, peigeren, sterven, verrekken, verscheiden, versmachten ... show more
3 expire
Moby thesaurus: advance, be all over, be annihilated, be destroyed, be done for, be lost, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow, blow over, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, close, come to naught, come to nothing, conclude, conk, conk out, continue, cough, croak, decease, demise, depart, depart this life, die, die away, die out, disappear, discontinue, dissolve, elapse, emit, end, endure, evacuate, evaporate, exhale, exhaust, expel, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, finish, flee, flit, flow, flow on, fly, fume, gasp, give off, give out, give vent to, glide, go, go by, go on, go out, gulp, hack, have it, have its time, hiccup, huff, inhale, inspire, kick off, lapse, last, leave no trace, let out, melt away, open the floodgates, open the sluices, pant, part, pass, pass away, pass by, pass on, pass over, peg out, perish, peter out, press on, proceed, puff, put off mortality, quit this world, reek, respire, return to dust, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, sigh, slide, slip, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, steam, stop breathing, succumb, terminate, throw off, up and die, vanish, vapor, wear away, wear off, wheeze, yield the ghost ... show more.
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