| 单词 | expire |
| 释义 | expire (once / 351 pages) 1v 2v If something — like milk or a free shipping coupon — expires, it is no longer usable or valid. When you expire, you will be dead. The verb expire comes from the Latin expirare, meaning “breathe out,” and the modern use retains that ancient meaning. The expanded, and more commonly used, meaning of expire is that the breath has — literally or figuratively — departed. When you expire your breath, you breathe out; you exhale. Things with a limited shelf life sometimes offer an expiration date that lets you know when they will expire: yogurt, frozen burritos, and even contracts for temporary employment. But some things expire in their own time: life, love, and car batteries. WORD FAMILYexpire: expiration, expiratory, expired, expires, expiring+/expiration: expirations/expired: unexpired USAGE EXAMPLESThe current 10-year moratorium is scheduled to expire next year. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Prosecutors say the center used expired ingredients and failed to follow cleanliness standards, resulting in tainted steroid injections. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) His one-year contract with the team is set to expire, and he’s seeking a long-term deal in the offseason. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v lose validity My passports expired last month Syn|Hyper run out discontinue come to or be at an end 2v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life 2Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad stop operating or functioning diesuffer or face the pain of death be born come into existence through birth abort cease development, die, and be aborted asphyxiate, stifle, suffocatebe asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen buy it, pip outbe killed or die; drowndie from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating predeceasedie before; die earlier than famish, starvedie of food deprivation falldie, as in battle or in a hunt succumb, yieldbe fatally overwhelmed strangledie from strangulation change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action v expel air Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper breathe out, exhale breathe in, inhale, inspire draw in (air) snort make a snorting sound by exhaling hard blowexhale hard gasp, heave, pant, puffbreathe noisily, as when one is exhausted chuff, huff, puffblow hard and loudly insufflateblow or breathe hard on or into breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs |
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