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expire

/ɛkˈspaɪ.ə(ɹ)/verb

To reach the end of its valid period and stop being usable.

Example sentences

  • “My passport expires next month, so I need to renew it.”
  • “The coupon expired before I had a chance to use it.”

Standard for passports, licenses, contracts, and food dates. As a way of saying someone died it is old-fashioned and now sounds either literary or comic.

Synonyms for expire

  • run out
  • lapse
  • end
  • terminate

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