expiring

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of expire.

   Her contract is expiring at the end of the year.

   Investors worried about the warranty expiring before the repairs were finished.

   Note

   One -ing spelling does two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (the lease is expiring); without be it works as a noun (worried about the lease expiring). Usually it takes no object, as with dying, lapsing or ending, but the breathing and emitting senses can take one: expiring air, a marsh expiring vapor. Before a noun, as in an expiring lease, it shades into the adjective "ending, dying".

2. 2
   adjective

   Coming to a close; in the process of terminating or dying.

   Like the final embers of a fire fading into ash.

   The expiring monarch whispered final instructions to the heir.

   An expiring fire cast dim shadows across the empty hall.

   Similardying, waning

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