Timeline for How can I express "expire" in active tense?
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| Dec 15, 2018 at 10:46 | answer | added | Nigel J | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2018 at 9:49 | comment | added | WS2 | @NigelJ Good point. None of us have the capacity to "expire" something, "Expiration" is an inherent, pre-determined factor. I suppose we can "cause something to expire", and I guess "cause to expire" is the phrasal verb the OP is seeking. . | |
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| Nov 15, 2018 at 23:41 | comment | added | jsw29 | The title of this question does not capture its content. The sentence 'X has expired' is, grammatically, in the active voice. What the OP is seeking is a transitive verb that takes as its object, what would be the subject of expire. | |
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:25 | history | edited | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added context from OP's comments.
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 14:22 | comment | added | Nigel J | Something 'expires' when it reaches the end of its lifetime, whatever the nature of that 'life' may be. We speak of life being 'terminated' when medical machinery is switched off so 'terminate' would seem to be the active form of expire. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:48 | answer | added | WendyG | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | lbf | a thesaurus search is easy. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | lbf | Would the OP kindly add their own research to the question, including a more specific sample sentence? | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:07 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ |
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:05 | answer | added | JeremyC | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:36 | answer | added | JJJ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:30 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | This seems redolent of Bluebottle's "I've been deaded!" I believe the answer is no. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:27 | comment | added | goodvibration | @JJJ: No, it is just marked "obsolete" or "deprecated" (same thing AFAIK). | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:24 | comment | added | JJJ | Is the old piece of information replaced by something new? For example a model which is no longer valid because a new model better describes it? | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | goodvibration | @EdwinAshworth: Possibly, but as I said, I was hoping to use the actual word ("expire"). | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:21 | comment | added | goodvibration | @JJJ: A piece of information which has expired. How can I say that I actively "expire" it? | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:17 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Isn't 'terminate' appropriate? | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:16 | comment | added | JJJ | Could you say more about the context? What are you invalidating? A law, a rule, a piece of code? | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:08 | history | asked | goodvibration | CC BY-SA 3.0 |