expired

«expired» in Mova's school dictionary: died — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (expire, expires, expired, expiring); adjective (expired)

meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, medical or formal) died. tree →

2) came to the end of the time it is valid or allowed: «My passport has expired». tree →

3) (of food or medicine) past its use-by or best-before date and not safe or good to use. tree →

4) (formal, science) breathed out. tree →

sense in the lessons

In hospitals and official reports «the patient expired» hides the plain word «died» behind a cool, technical word; it is jargon and can sound cold. In everyday life the commonest sense is about cards, tickets, food and passwords running out. All regions.

examples

• The patient expired early in the morning, the nurse wrote in the chart. tree →
• My library card has expired, so I need a new one. tree →
• Don't drink that milk; it's expired. tree →
• Your password has expired; please choose a new one. tree →
• The parking ticket expired ten minutes ago and we got a fine. tree →
• The offer expires at midnight. tree →
• In the old play, the king groans and then expires on the stage. tree →
• "The hamster has, um, expired," said Dad, trying to break it gently. tree →
• Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave. tree →

note

Trap: «expired» about a person means died, but about food or tickets it means no longer valid; check what the subject is. Said of a person in everyday talk it can sound cold or funny. In maths problems, «expires after 30 days» is a time limit for counting days.

In the corpora

• And the days were not expired;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «expired» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.