Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to expire
Participle: expired
Gerund: expiring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | expire |
| you | expire |
| he;she;it | expires |
| we | expire |
| you | expire |
| they | expire |
Perfect
| I | have expired |
| you | have expired |
| he;she;it | has expired |
| we | have expired |
| you | have expired |
| they | have expired |
Past
| I | expired |
| you | expired |
| he;she;it | expired |
| we | expired |
| you | expired |
| they | expired |
Pluperfect
| I | had expired |
| you | had expired |
| he;she;it | had expired |
| we | had expired |
| you | had expired |
| they | had expired |
Future
| I | will expire |
| you | will expire |
| he;she;it | will expire |
| we | will expire |
| you | will expire |
| they | will expire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have expired |
| you | will have expired |
| he;she;it | will have expired |
| we | will have expired |
| you | will have expired |
| they | will have expired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | expire |
| you | expire |
| he;she;it | expire |
| we | expire |
| you | expire |
| they | expire |
Perfect
| I | have expired |
| you | have expired |
| he;she;it | have expired |
| we | have expired |
| you | have expired |
| they | have expired |
Imperfect
| I | expired |
| you | expired |
| he;she;it | expired |
| we | expired |
| you | expired |
| they | expired |
Pluperfect
| I | had expired |
| you | had expired |
| he;she;it | had expired |
| we | had expired |
| you | had expired |
| they | had expired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would expire |
| you | would expire |
| he;she;it | would expire |
| we | would expire |
| you | would expire |
| they | would expire |
Perfect
| I | would have expired |
| you | would have expired |
| he;she;it | would have expired |
| we | would have expired |
| you | would have expired |
| they | would have expired |
Imperative
| you | expire |
| we | Let's expire |
| you | expire |
Verbs conjugated like 'expire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'expire'
aspire,
enfire,
enmire,
excide,
excise,
excite,
exile,
expede,
expert,
expiate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to die
- die
- to stop living; to become dead
- auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, conk out, croak, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, exit, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go to glory, go to one's reward, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, knock off, lose one's life, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, die, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost
- end
- finish, conclude, stop, lapse, quit
- die
- perish
Antonyms
- end
- beginning, inception, commencement, inauguration
- die
- live, exist, originate, develop
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1419, from M.Fr.
expirer, from L.
expirare "breathe out, breathe one's last, die," from
ex- "out" +
spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). "Die" is the older sense in Eng.; that of "breathe out" is first attested 1590. Of laws, patents, treaties, etc., c.1477.
2. From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”). See: Latin '
expīrō,exspīrō'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] everybody is in a conspiracy against their poor old dying relative; wherefore the old lady or gentleman makes another last will—positively the last this time—conceals the same in a china teapot, and expires next day. Then it turns out, that the whole of the real and personal estate is divided between half-a-dozen charities; and that the dead and gone testator has in pure spite helped to do a great [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and in this dark shroud, an emblem of the curtain dropped between him and the living world, he is led to the cell from which he never again comes forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife and children; home or friends; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In another cell, there was a German, sentenced to five years ’ imprisonment for larceny, two of which had just expired. With colours procured in the same manner, he had painted every inch of the walls and ceiling quite beautifully. He had laid out the few feet of ground, behind, with exquisite neatness, and had [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] whole fortnight fluttered about the vessel 's stern. For some days we had a dead calm, or very light winds, during which the crew amused themselves with fishing, and hooked an unlucky dolphin, who expired, in all his rainbow colours, on the deck: an event of such importance in our barren calendar, that afterwards we dated from the dolphin, and made the day on which he died, an era.
(American Notes for General Circulation)