Definition of "expire" []

• To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired. (verb-intransitive)
• To breathe one's last breath; die: The patient expired early this morning. (verb-intransitive)
• To exhale; breathe out. (verb-intransitive)
• To breathe (something) out. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To give (something) off. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Justice David Prosser, one of the four-justice unofficial conservative majority, sees his term expire this year."
• "If conflicts come up, instead of taking all the group's time to address the issues you can simply let the term expire and the group dissolve."
• "Marsh, a director since 2001, would have seen his term expire in 2012."