expire

To reach an end date and no longer be valid or available.

• My passport expires next month.
• The offer expired yesterday.
• When does your parking ticket expire?

Similar words: end, run out, lapse

Common phrases: expire next month, expire in June

For food or medicine, to pass the date by which it should be used.

• This milk expires tomorrow.
• The tablets expired last year.
• Check whether the yoghurt has expired.

Similar words: go out of date

Common phrases: expire this week, expire in May

To die.

• The patient expired during the night.
• He expired peacefully with his family beside him.
• Several injured prisoners expired before help arrived.

Similar words: die, pass away

Common phrases: expire peacefully, expire suddenly

To push air out of your lungs when breathing.

• Inspire deeply, then expire slowly.
• The patient expired air through a tube.
• Measure the volume of air expired during each breath.

Similar words: breathe out, exhale

Opposites: inhale, inspire

Common phrases: expire slowly, expire air