expiring
About to lapse
Expiring describes something reaching the end of its valid period or coming to a close.
A passport or coupon that is expiring will soon no longer be accepted: Check for expiring medications in your cabinet.
The word also applies to breath being released, or in literary contexts, to dying: With his expiring breath, he whispered her name.
In process of dying
- passingMoving by or temporary
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- mortalityState of eventual death
- last breathFinal exhale before death
final moments · death · decline · senescence · frailty · deterioration · waning · ebbing
Act of ending something
- cessationA full stopping
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- discontinuationFormal ending of something
closure · invalidation · cancellation · revocation · sunset · finality · deadline · cutoff
Temporary, soon departing
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- temporaryLimited in duration
- short-livedLasting only briefly
- impermanentNot meant to last
evanescent · momentary · brief · passing · finite · limited · bounded · time-sensitive
Temporary use contract
- warrantyFormal repair promise
- subscriptionPaid recurring access
- licenseFormal grant of permission
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
visa · passport · membership · policy · certificate · permit · registration · coupon
Process of declining quality
- spoilageFood degradation process
- rottingOrganic matter decomposing
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- stalenessLoss of freshness
freshness · shelf-life · perishability · wilting · withering · degradation · souring · rancidity
perishing
In process of dying
last breath · final moments · death · decline · senescence · frailty · deterioration · waning · ebbing · succumbing
termination
Act of ending something
- cessationA full stopping
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- conclusionEnd or deduction
discontinuation · closure · invalidation · cancellation · revocation · sunset · finality · deadline · cutoff · maturity
transient
Temporary, soon departing
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- temporaryLimited in duration
- short-livedLasting only briefly
impermanent · evanescent · momentary · brief · passing · finite · limited · bounded · time-sensitive · perishable
lease
Temporary use contract
- warrantyFormal repair promise
- subscriptionPaid recurring access
- licenseFormal grant of permission
patent · visa · passport · membership · policy · certificate · permit · registration · coupon · agreement
deterioration
Process of declining quality
- spoilageFood degradation process
- rottingOrganic matter decomposing
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
staleness · freshness · shelf-life · perishability · wilting · withering · degradation · souring · rancidity · mold
- breathingbreathing, inhalation, breath, exhalation, breathe
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- time verbswait, pause, delay, hasten, hurry
- dyingdying, passing, passing away, perishing, succumbing
- spoilagerotten, stale, moldy, rotting, spoiled
expiringcontinuing
Going on without stopping
renewing · commencing · beginning · starting · persisting
expiringliving
Currently having breath
surviving · thriving · being born · reviving · flourishing
spirit, inspire, expire, expired, expiration, expiry, transpire, expires, respire