expire

Definition of expire in English English dictionary: to exhale; to breathe (out); to exhale (something)
He escaped the garage and will expire the carbon monoxide he had been breathing.; to become invalid
My library card will expire next week.; to die
The old librarian will expire next week.; {v} to breathe out, exhale, die, end, close; When something such as a contract, deadline, or visa expires, it comes to an end or is no longer valid. He had lived illegally in the United States for five years after his visitor's visa expired. = run out; To emit the breath; lose validity; "My passports expired last month"; pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; The Collabra Server program that manages article expiration; The date up to which a trader can exercise his option; {f} come to an end, finish, terminate; die; 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; After a certain amount of time, Usenet postings can be set to expire, which means that they will be deleted even if they haven't been read, so that they don't waste space; To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony; 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; expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"; To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - - opposed to inspire; A subscriber who has let his subscription run out without renewing; To burst forth; to fly out with a blast; To emit; to give out; As a verb, what happens when a subscription reaches the end of the period paid for without renewing As a noun, a subscription or group of subscriptions that run out on a certain date (“the January expires”) Expires may also refer to a list of expired subscribers Because expires are prime prospects for new offers, expire lists (also called “hold lists”) are valuable commodities; to remove messages after a specified period of time; The term used within the Space Management subsystem when an archived file needs to be removed from the system Archived data can be expired because the size of an individual archive exceeds a configured amount of disk space or the data is older than a site configured time limit; What a system operator can make files do if they have been using up server space for too long Often applies to Usenet postings and unclaimed email; A former customer who is no longer considered an active buyer; Articles can not be held for eternity because of harddisk limits Because of this there is usually a program called expire on the most computer systems This program deletes all articles which are older than a configured number of days KNode includes this functionality on it's own; To bring to a close; to terminate; To label a document as "expired," or too old to serve to a client The proxy will retrieve a current copy directly from the content server the next time a client requests the document If the content server is unavailable, the expired document can still be served to the client with a message stating that it isn't current; Former customer who no longer purchases goods or services; to exhale something
expired: that has been breathed out
expired: that is no longer valid
expired: Simple past tense and past participle of expire
expiring: Present participle of expire
expired: dead
expired: having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license
expiring: Ending, terminating, dying
expiring: Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating
expiring: Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans