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Expire
Expire was an American hardcore punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, active from 2009 to 2017. They were signed to Bridge 9 Records.
Die
(of a person, animal, or plant) stop living
The king died a violent death
He died of tuberculosis
Trees are dying from acid rain
Expire
To come to an end; terminate
My membership in the club has expired.
Die
Be very eager for something
They must be dying for a drink
He's dying to meet you
Expire
To breathe one's last breath; die
The patient expired early this morning.
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Die
Have an orgasm.
Expire
To exhale; breathe out.
Die
Singular form of dice
Expire
To breathe (something) out.
Die
A device for cutting or moulding metal into a particular shape.
Expire
(Archaic) To give (something) off.
Die
The cubical part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice; a dado or plinth.
Expire
(intransitive) To die.
The patient expired in hospital.
Die
To stop living; become dead; expire
Plants that died in the first frost of the season.
Expire
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
My library card will expire next week.
Die
To cease existing, often gradually; fade
The sunlight died in the west.
Expire
(intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
Die
To experience an intense, seemingly unbearable reaction to something
Nearly died of embarrassment.
Expire
(ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
Die
(Informal) To want something very much. Usually used in the progressive aspect
I am dying for a box of chocolates. She was dying to see the exhibit.
Expire
(transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
Die
To stop working or operating
The motor died when we ran out of gas.
Expire
(transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
Die
To become indifferent
Had died to all worldly concerns.
Expire
To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - opposed to inspire.
Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
Die
To cut, form, or stamp with or as if with a die.
Expire
To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.
The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.
Die
A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.
Expire
To emit; to give out.
Die
Dice (used with a sing. verb) A game of chance using dice.
Expire
To bring to a close; to terminate.
Expire the termOf a despised life.
Die
An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
Expire
To emit the breath.
Die
One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.
Expire
To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
Die
A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.
Expire
To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
Die
A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.
Expire
To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
Die
Pl. dies(Architecture)The dado of a pedestal, especially when cube-shaped.
Expire
Lose validity;
My passports expired last month
Die
(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
Expire
Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
She died from cancer
They children perished in the fire
The patient went peacefully
Die
Followed by of; general use:
He died of malaria.
Expire
Expel air;
Exhale when you lift the weight
Die
Followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicineSciences:}}
He died from heart failure.
Die
Followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
He died for the one he loved.
Die
Followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
Die
Followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
I can't believe I just died to a turret!
Die
(still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
She died with dignity.
Die
(transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
He died a hero's death.
They died a thousand deaths.
Die
To yearn intensely.
I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
I'm dying for a piss.
Die
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
Die
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
Die
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
Die
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
Die
To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
My battery died and my charger was at home.
Die
To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
Die
To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
Die
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
Die
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
Die
(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
To die to pleasure or to sin
Die
(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
Die
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
Die
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Die
Obsolete spelling of dye
Die
The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
Die
A device for cutting into a specified shape.
Die
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
Die
A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
Die
An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
Die
An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Die
Any small cubical or square body.
Die
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
Most dice are six-sided.
I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
Die
(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Die
Obsolete spelling of dye
Die
To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; - said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
She will die from want of care.
Die
To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Die
To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.
Great deeds can not die.
Die
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.
Die
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
Die
To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; - often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.
Die
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
Die
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
"There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, - I will die in the last ditch."
Die
A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
Die
Any small cubical or square body.
Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.
Die
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Such is the die of war.
Die
That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
Die
A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
Die
Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
Die
A device used for shaping metal
Die
A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
Die
Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
She died from cancer
They children perished in the fire
The patient went peacefully
Die
Suffer or face the pain of death;
Martyrs may die every day for their faith
Die
Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame;
I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered
We almost died laughing during the show
Die
Stop operating or functioning;
The engine finally went
The car died on the road
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
Her eyesight went after the accident
Die
Feel indifferent towards;
She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery
Die
Languish as with love or desire;
She dying for a cigarette
I was dying to leave
Die
Cut or shape with a die;
Die out leather for belts
Die
To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
Die
Lose sparkle or bouquet;
Wine and beer can pall
Die
Disappear or come to an end;
Their anger died
My secret will die with me!
Die
Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense);
Whosoever..believes in me shall never die
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