Unscramble expire

Definition of expire

verb:

• lose validity; "My passports expired last month". Synonyms: run out.
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer", "The children perished in the fire", "The patient went peacefully", "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102". Synonyms: 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. Antonyms: be born.
• expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight". Synonyms: breathe out, exhale. Antonyms: inhale.

Related words

abort, asphyxiate, blow, drown, fall, famish, predecease, snort, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, yield.

Words nearby

empire, expired, expiry.

Rhymes with

admire, afire, aspire, dire, fire, hire, inquire, inspire, ire, lyre, meir, mire, perspire, quire, require, retire, retire, shire, skier, spire.