expire
US: /ɪkˈspaɪɹ/
UK: /ɛkspˈaɪə/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
expire /iks'paiə/- ngoại động từ
- thở ra
- thở ra
- nội động từ
- thở ra
- thở hắt ra; tắt thở, chết; tắt (lửa...)
- mãn hạn, kết thúc, hết hiệu lực (luật); mai một, mất đi (chức tước...)
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb [V]1 (of a document, an agreement, etc.) to be no longer valid because the period of time for which it could be used has ended
Synonym: RUN OUT
When does your driving licence expire? + Our lease on the house expires next month.
2 (of a period of time, especially one during which sb holds a position of authority) to end: His term of office expires at the end of June.
3 (literary) to die
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Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 cease, (come to an) end, close, finish, terminate, run out, conclude, discontinue:
Your subscription expires with the next issue.
2 die, breathe one's last, decease, perish, pass away:
His grandmother expired only last year, at the age of 110.
3 exhale, breathe out, expel:
In the daytime we expire more carbon dioxide than during the night.
Collocation
VERB + EXPIRE
be due to
His contract is due to expire at the end of this year.
Concise dictionary
expires|expired|expiringɪk'spaɪəverb
+lose validity
+pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
+expel air
