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# expired

«expired» in Mova's school dictionary: **died** — 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); adjective (expired)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, medical or formal) died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#m1)

2) came to the end of the time it is valid or allowed: «My passport has expired». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#m2)

3) (of food or medicine) past its use-by or best-before date and not safe or good to use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#m3)

4) (formal, science) breathed out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In hospitals and official reports «the patient expired» hides the plain word «died» behind a cool, technical word; it is jargon and can sound cold. In everyday life the commonest sense is about cards, tickets, food and passwords running out. All regions.

### examples

- The patient expired early in the morning, the nurse wrote in the chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x1)
- My library card has expired, so I need a new one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x2)
- Don't drink that milk; it's expired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x3)
- Your password has expired; please choose a new one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x4)
- The parking ticket expired ten minutes ago and we got a fine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x5)
- The offer expires at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x6)
- In the old play, the king groans and then expires on the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x7)
- "The hamster has, um, expired," said Dad, trying to break it gently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x8)
- Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expired/#x9)

### note

Trap: «expired» about a person means died, but about food or tickets it means no longer valid; check what the subject is. Said of a person in everyday talk it can sound cold or funny. In maths problems, «expires after 30 days» is a time limit for counting days.

### 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/school/E/expired/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.