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expired

expired

43 2.1
No longer valid because its date has passed
  • adjective
  • /ɪkˈspaɪərd/
translation icon : caducado
  • She discovered an expired coupon while cleaning her wallet.
  • an expired patent

So this stuff, a lot of it's already opened and it's probably expired, which sucks.

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Examples

  • Moses, the warranty has expired on your Toyota Camry.

  • Wait, doesn't she have an expired license?

  • Well, we have one more and these ones are only expired by a few days.

  • These are probably expired, but I still use them.

  • The driver then provided an expired insurance card.

  • Hey, look, these expired, like, five months ago.

  • The supermarket is selling expired bacon.

  • It's got a temp tag that expired yesterday.

  • What happens if I use expired Shea butter?

  • It's three years expired.

Synonyms

out-of-date
vsexpired
34 4.4

No longer current or in use

refers specifically to something that stopped being valid after a set time

Antonyms

664 1.0

Operating now and not stopped

348 3.1

Accepted by law, by an official, or for good reason

1 5.3

Still valid because its time has not ended

Compounds

A travel document that is no longer valid

How Valid

valid
348 3.1
expired
43 2.1
invalid
  • Formal
69 4.7

Surface Forms

expired positive

Morphology

expired = expire (transparent) = expire + ed

Regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'expire' yields the expected meaning 'no longer valid'.

Etymology

The word expired comes from the parts ex- 'out' and spirare 'to breathe', the same root you see in inspire. It originally meant 'to breathe out' and then 'to come to an end', so when something is expired it has 'breathed out' its time and is no longer valid.