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| 1. | [ verb ] lose validity | |
| Synonyms: | run_out | |
| Examples: | "My passports expired last month" |
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| Related terms: | discontinue termination | |
| 2. | [ verb ] (biology) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | |
| Synonyms: | die perish pass_away go exit pass decease | |
| Examples: | "She died from cancer" "They children perished in the fire" "The patient went peacefully" |
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| Related terms: | be_born change_state starve fall drown kick_the_bucket buy_it suffocate predecease suffocate succumb die_out die_out die_back die_down fail die death death death Death death death loss dead_person | |
| 3. | [ verb ] expel air | |
| Synonyms: | exhale breathe_out | |
| Examples: | "Exhale when you lift the weight" |
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| Related terms: | inhale breathe blow snort exhalation | |
| Similar spelling: |
expired expiry express expiring expressly expressed |
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