expire
expire is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
- transitive verb. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.
- transitive verb. To emit; to give out.
- transitive verb. To bring to a close; to terminate.
- intransitive verb. To emit the breath.
- intransitive verb. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
- intransitive verb. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
- intransitive verb. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
- verb. expel air
"Exhale when you lift the weight"
- verb. 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"
- verb. lose validity
"My passports expired last month"
Synonyms
exhale, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, go, pass, perish
Common word forms
expired, expirer, expires, expiring
Words from these letters
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