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Run out   /rən aʊt/   Listen
Run out

verb
1.
Become used up; be exhausted.
2.
Flow off gradually.  Synonym: drain.
3.
Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry.  Synonyms: beetle off, bolt, bolt out, run off.  "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"
4.
Lose validity.  Synonym: expire.
5.
Flow, run or fall out and become lost.  Synonym: spill.  "The wine spilled onto the table"
6.
Exhaust the supply of.
7.
Prove insufficient.  Synonyms: fail, give out.
8.
Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working.  Synonyms: conk out, peter out, poop out, run down.





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"Run out" Quotes from Famous Books



... and trembling. The run out of the woods had been almost too much for her. As for Miriam, she was sobbing ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower
... sitting astride a banister while my parents were waiting for me outside. I distinctly remember a pleasurable sensation—probably in part due to a physical feeling—in the thought of staying there when I knew I ought to have run out to them. From that year till the age of 10 I simply reveled in the idea of being tortured. I went gladly to bed every night to imagine myself a slave, chained, beaten, made to carry loads and do ignominious ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... carbine, and still the enemy melted away—fled up the hills by hundreds when there were only twenty bullets to stop them. On the heights the screw-guns ceased firing—they had run out of ammunition—and the Brigadier groaned, for the musketry fire could not sufficiently smash the retreat. Long before the last volleys were fired, the doolies were out in force looking for the wounded. The battle was over, and, but for want ...
— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... we recrossed Hatcher's Run, and began the construction of permanent works on that side. We worked by reliefs, three hours on duty and three off. We had run out of provisions, and a fresh supply failed to arrive. The men became dissatisfied, and finally refused to work. Threats of compelling them to work were made. The men answered by gathering up their guns and starting for the woods, in the rear. At this point General ...
— In The Ranks - From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House • R. E. McBride
... rose or fell much from a certain pitch; and at that level the words gurgled forth, seemingly from an everbrimming fountain; he never wanted one; and the stream had neither let nor stay till his modicum of sense had fairly run out. People thought he had not a greater stock of that than some of his neighbours; but he issued an amount of word-currency sufficient for the use of ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell


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