EXPIRE Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

expire

verb

ik-ˈspī(-ə)r

Definition of expire

as in to end

to come to an end speakers will not be allowed to continue after their allotted time has expired

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as in to exhale

to let or force out of the lungs he vows to hold on to that belief until he expires his last breath

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as in to die

to stop living made one last visit to his homeland and expired not long afterwards

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as in to release

archaic to throw or give off linden trees expiring their rich perfume

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Recent Examples of expire Versant and Verizon have come to terms on a renewal of the companies’ distribution agreement, a move that means the media company, in its first year since being spun off from Comcast, has renewed all such deals expiring in 2026. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026 Customs and Border Protection paused all activity there, but that pause expired on September 30. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 The contracts of both ESPN's Troy Aikman and Fox's Greg Olsen expire after the Super Bowl in February, which Aikman will call alongside Joe Buck for ESPN/ABC. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The move comes at a time when many Obamacare enrollees are struggling to maintain their coverage – or have dropped their policies – after congressional Republicans allowed the enhanced ACA premium subsidies to expire at the end of last year. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for expire

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The best way to get costs down is to end the war in Ukraine and open the Strait of Hormuz that Iran is trying to hold hostage.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
With that, Dorinda gathers everyone (except for Chanel Ayan, who is too beautiful for the cold) out into the freezing night for the fireworks that end this celebration.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of end

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Jeff Dean / Getty Images When Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow fumbled late in the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh exhaled with a 30-27 win over a division rival.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

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After a concertgoer died in the audience at a Carson music festival on Saturday, an artist is outraged the show continued while the deceased was still on-site.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
An inmate died in an apparent homicide Tuesday morning after an attack by another prisoner at California State Prison, Sacramento, state corrections officials said.

— Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of die

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Mogwai, who would make their debut the year after Beat was released and with whom Bowery Electric would share a bill, would crouch in similarly unassuming and tense postures and use them to spring out and scare the bejeezus out of people.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Never Enough, released in June 2025, is Turnstile’s fourth album and the follow-up to their 2021 breakthrough Glow On.

— Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of release

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Cornell conducted an internal investigation and suspended or expelled some of the men, but prosecutors did not bring criminal charges against any of the accused.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
The case has drawn national attention in recent weeks after it was revealed that only two of the seven men alleged to have been involved were expelled.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of expel

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On the price front, China's residential prices have already fallen by 22% since a 2021 peak, compared with a 67% drop in Japan's after a far greater run-up in prices, the S&P report said.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Insider buying fell 18% to 1,290 buyers, down from 1,580 in the second quarter.

— Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of fall

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Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford had already shown that radioactive materials sometimes emitted particles, naturally changing the makeup of their atomic nuclei.

— Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
The physicists used that data to reconstruct the angles at which electrons and muons were emitted to infer the spins of the original Z bosons that preceded them.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

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