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expire

/ik-spahyuhr/US // ɪkˈspaɪər //UK // (ɪkˈspaɪə) //

过期,过期的,过期了,过期后

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·pired, ex·pir·ing.

    • : to come to an end; terminate, as a contract, guarantee, or offer.
    • : to emit the last breath; die.
    • : to breathe out.
    • : to die out, as a fire.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·pired, ex·pir·ing.

    • : to breathe out; emit from the lungs.
    • : Archaic. to give off, emit, or eject.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcome to an end
Forms: expired

Examples

  • The $300 weekly enhanced unemployment benefit replaces the $600 enhanced benefit that expired the week ending July 25.

  • He remembers watching birds expire in midair as they flew from one side of the plant to the other.

  • No one is getting that $600 payment right now, though, since it expired at the end of July and Congress is still deadlocked over whether to extend it.

  • America and Russia updated that treaty when it was to expire in 2009.

  • Expanded unemployment benefits keeping the economy turning over expire on July 31, one-time checks to families are long spent, and there is still no coordinated federal plan to test for the coronavirus.

  • Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.

  • Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.

  • The temporary reduction of Social Security payroll taxes was allowed to expire in early 2013.

  • Those negotiations are set to expire at the end of November.

  • First, they let the stimulus boost expire, which that meant an average family of three receiving benefits lost $29 per month.

  • When a lease is about to expire a difficult question sometimes arises, what can the tenant take away with him?

  • He begged me to follow him: “I may die under the knife, and I should wish, in that case, to expire in your arms.”

  • The act which was passed at that time for imposing a tax upon income will shortly expire.

  • The conquered remain on the battlefield, nearly broken in two, and feebly waving their paws, till they slowly expire in agonies.

  • The colonists looked anxiously to 1764 when the odious act would expire by limitation.