If something — like milk or a free shipping coupon — expires, it is no longer usable or valid. When you expire, you will be dead. The verb expire comes from the Latin expirare, meaning “breathe out,” and the modern use retains that ancient meaning.
Definition of expire verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
expire (third-person singular simple present expires, present participle expiring, simple past and past participle expired) (intransitive) To die. synonym quotations Synonyms: see Thesaurus: die The patient expired in hospital.
• The chairman's term of office expires at the end of March. • The government is now operating under a temporary measure, or continuing resolution, that expires at the end of next week.
