expire

verb

Etymology: From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).

1. To die.

   “The patient expired in hospital.”

   “And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.”

2. To lapse and become invalid.

   “My library card will expire next week.”

3. To come to an end; to conclude.

   “And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]”

4. To exhale; to breathe out.

   “Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.”

   “This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.”

5. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.

   “the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter”

6. To bring to a close; to terminate.

   “Expire the term / Of a despised life.”

7. To cause to lapse; to invalidate.

   “The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours.”