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# expire

«expire» in Mova's school dictionary: **When something expires, it stops being valid or usable…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (expire, expires, expired, expiring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) When something expires, it stops being valid or usable after a certain time, like a ticket, card or password. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#m1)

2) Food or medicine that has expired is past the date it is safe or best to use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#m2)

3) In old or formal English, to expire means to die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#m3)

4) When a sound or echo expires, it fades away and stops being heard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life tickets, passports, library loans, coupons and food expire; families check «use by» and «expiry» dates. In stories the word sometimes means a character dies. Phrases: «the ticket has expired», «expiry date», «out of date».

### examples

- My bus pass expired last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x1)
- Check the milk; it might have expired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x2)
- The coupon expires at the end of the month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x3)
- Your password has expired; please make a new one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x4)
- Don't take medicine that has expired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x5)
- The parking time expired, so they got a ticket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x6)
- In the old story, the knight expired after the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x7)
- And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: «expiry» (UK) or «expiration» (US). Food past its «best before» date may still be fine, but food past its «use by» date is not safe; medicine past its expiry date should go back to a pharmacy.

### 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 «expire» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expire/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.