EXPIRED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does expired mean? 

• EXPIRED (adjective)
  The adjective EXPIRED has 1 sense:

1. having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time

  Familiarity information: EXPIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time

Context example:

caught driving with an expired license

Similar:

invalid (no longer valid)

terminated ((of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end)

Antonym:

unexpired (not having come to an end or been terminated by passage of time)

 Context examples 

A lamp could not have expired with more awful effect.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I dropped my gun and held him in my arms, but he almost instantly expired.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My papa lived to bail Mr. Micawber several times, and then expired, regretted by a numerous circle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I entered I found that the sufferer to whose aid I had been summoned had that instant expired.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Seeing me, she roused herself: she made a sort of effort to smile, and framed a few words of congratulation; but the smile expired, and the sentence was abandoned unfinished.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Issue associated with the amount of gas that is inspired and expired during one respiratory cycle.

(Fluctuation of Tidal Volume Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A device that approximates a blood alcohol level from the components of an expired breath.

(Breath Alcohol Test Device, NCI Thesaurus)

A radioconjugate consisting of dextromethorphan, a synthetic, methylated dextrorotatory analogue of levorphanol, conjugated with carbon-13 [(13)C] with radiotracer activity. (13)C-dextromethorphan can be used in a breath-test phenotype assay of CYP2D6 activity, based on the principle that CYP2D6-mediated O-demethylation cleaves a (13)CH3 that enters the body's carbon pool to be eliminated ultimately as (13)CO2 in expired air, which can be measured.

(Carbon C-13 Dextromethorphan, NCI Thesaurus)

The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When the time was expired, Traddles gave her his arm; and we all went out together to the old house, without saying one word on the way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)