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Run out

verb

Become used up; be exhausted.

Flow off gradually. Synonym: drain.

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"

Lose validity. Synonym: expire.

Flow, run or fall out and become lost. Synonym: spill. "The wine spilled onto the table"

Exhaust the supply of.

Prove insufficient. Synonyms: fail, give out.

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

... anything for me to do, Miss Ledwith, I'll do it," said Kate Sencerbox. "But I won't go into one of those offices, nor off into the country for the winter. I want to keep something to hold on to,—not run out to ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... test exams last week, and Stanley had to run out to Minnesota for the government, so he took me along to ...

— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... for this new-comer than for the well-fed cats; possibly he was more agile than they, for with one spring he landed by the saucer and dipping his head eagerly lapped long and fast before he once raised his eyes. When he finished the pink tongue was run out over his lips and whiskers, so that no delicious drop should escape, and ...

— The Book of the Cat • Mabel Humphrey and Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall

... here two or three times," said Mary. "I saw him go by and I wanted to run out and ask him about you, ...

— Betty Leicester - A Story For Girls • Sarah Orne Jewett

... sled to the top of Town Hill. He started down the hill. The sled run so fast it crossed the Iron Bridge up to the top of Scrabbletown Hill. Afore he cud git off she started back down the hill, across the Iron Bridge agin, up to the top of Town Hill an' back she started. Half the men in town run out an' tried to stop thet sled but hit wus so cold they couldn't do hit. She just kept on a-goin' down ...

— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

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