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expire

verb as in breathe out

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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.

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On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expire, such as: cease, close, conclude, depart, die, and finish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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