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EXPIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time
Example:
caught driving with an expired license
Classified under:
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invalid (no longer valid)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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb expire
Context examples:
I waited till the last deep and full vibration had expired—till the tide of talk, checked an instant, had resumed its flow; I then quitted my sheltered corner and made my exit by the side-door, which was fortunately near.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At length, when the term of my visit was nearly expired, it was given out that Peggotty and Mr. Barkis were going to make a day's holiday together, and that little Em'ly and I were to accompany them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is always the way of events in this life, he continued presently: no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
These, and a dark-complexioned young woman, with a habit of snorting, who was servant to the family, and informed me, before half an hour had expired, that she was a Orfling, and came from St. Luke's workhouse, in the neighbourhood, completed the establishment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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