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# expired

«expired» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **died** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

died

### part of speech

verb, past tense of expire

### meaning for a pupil

dead; passed away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/expired/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today 'expire' is mostly used for tickets or permits running out, or as a polite word for dying; here it means died, and the third sentence uses today's sense of running out.

### examples

- And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. (Torah GEN.25.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/expired/#x1)
- Then she returned home, bought a coffin, lay down in it, and straightway expired. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/expired/#x2)
- A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/expired/#x3)

### primary record

expired

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 24 (Torah 4, tales 19, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 4; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 1.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the days were not expired;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.542/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expired» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/expired/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.