'Expired' definitions:
Definition of 'expired'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license" [ant: unexpired]
Definition of 'Expired'
From: GCIDE
- Expire \Ex*pire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired; p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit.]
- 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. [1913 Webster]
- Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. [1913 Webster]
- The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Expire the term Of a despised life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'expired'
From: GCIDE
- expired \expired\ adj. having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license. Opposite of unexpired. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'expired'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ago,
- all gone,
- annihilated,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- blown over,
- by,
- bygone,
- bypast,
- dated,
- dead,
- dead and buried,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- departed,
- done for,
- down the drain,
- elapsed,
- extinct,
- finished,
- forgotten,
- gone,
- gone glimmering,
- gone-by,
- had it,
- has-been,
- irrecoverable,
- kaput,
- kaputt,
- lapsed,
- no more,
- obsolete,
- over,
- passe,
- passed,
- passed away,
- past,
- perished,
- run out,
- vanished,
- wound up