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run out

verb

  1. exhaust, use up
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. Alternative form of runout.

verb

  1. To use up or consume all

    Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out.

    If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream.

  2. To expire; to come to an end.

    My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now.

    The option will run out next week and I can't get it extended.

  3. To expire; to come to an end.

    Time is running out.

    Oh no! The wine has run out!

  4. To get a batsman out (dismissed from play) via a runout.

    Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.

    With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.

  5. To extend a piece of material, or clothing.

    If I run out these curtains, they will fit the windows in the drawing room.

  6. To conclude in, to end up.

    Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.

  7. 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.

    They'll run us out of business doing that!

  8. To grow poor over time by spending all of one's money.
  9. To fill a line with quadrats or full points.
  10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out.

    Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave

    She ran out of the room in tears.