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Run out
noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 Alternative spelling of runout. alt-of, alternative
Verb
- 1 To use up or consume all idiomatic, intransitive, transitive
"Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out."
- 2 use up all one's strength and energy and stop working wordnet
- 3 To expire; to come to an end. intransitive
"My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now."
- 4 prove insufficient wordnet
- 5 To expire; to come to an end.; To be completely used up or consumed. intransitive
"Time is running out."
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- 6 become used up; be exhausted wordnet
- 7 To get a batsman out (dismissed from play) via a runout.
"Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over."
- 8 exhaust the supply of wordnet
- 9 To extend a piece of material, or clothing. transitive
"If I run out these curtains, they will fit the windows in the drawing room."
- 10 leave suddenly and as if in a hurry wordnet
- 11 To conclude in, to end up. intransitive
"Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League."
- 12 flow, run or fall out and become lost wordnet
- 13 To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being.
"If the mob thinks you did it, they'll run you out of town."
- 14 flow off gradually wordnet
- 15 To grow poor over time by spending all of one's money. archaic
- 16 lose validity wordnet
- 17 To fill a line with quadrats or full points. obsolete
- 18 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out.
"Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave"
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