| expire | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. expire, run out | lose validity.; "My passports expired last month" |
| ~ discontinue | come to or be at an end.; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" |
| v. (change) | 2. buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ abort | cease development, die, and be aborted.; "an aborting fetus" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate | be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.; "The child suffocated under the pillow" |
| ~ buy it, pip out | be killed or die. |
| ~ drown | die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating.; "The child drowned in the lake" |
| ~ predecease | die before; die earlier than.; "She predeceased her husband" |
| ~ conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go | 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" |
| ~ starve, famish | die of food deprivation.; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" |
| ~ die | suffer or face the pain of death.; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith" |
| ~ fall | die, as in battle or in a hunt.; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead" |
| ~ succumb, yield | be fatally overwhelmed. |
| v. (body) | 3. breathe out, exhale, expire | expel air.; "Exhale when you lift the weight" |
| ~ breathe, take a breath, suspire, respire | draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring" |
| ~ snort | make a snorting sound by exhaling hard.; "The critic snorted contemptuously" |
| ~ blow | exhale hard.; "blow on the soup to cool it down" |
| give way | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. ease up, give, give way, move over, yield | move in order to make room for someone for something.; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" |
| ~ abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (motion) | 2. break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way | break down, literally or metaphorically.; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ implode, go off | burst inward.; "The bottle imploded" |
| ~ abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" |
| ~ buckle, crumple | fold or collapse.; "His knees buckled" |
| ~ flop | fall loosely.; "He flopped into a chair" |
| ~ break | curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves.; "The surf broke" |
| ~ slide down, slump, sink | fall or sink heavily.; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" |
| ~ collapse, burst | cause to burst.; "The ice broke the pipe" |
| v. (change) | 3. give way, yield | end resistance, as under pressure or force.; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 4. break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | 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" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ break | render inoperable or ineffective.; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, pass | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ go down, crash | stop operating.; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" |
| ~ blow out, burn out, blow | melt, break, or become otherwise unusable.; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew" |
| ~ misfire | fail to fire or detonate.; "The guns misfired" |
| ~ malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly.; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" |
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