Lexic.us

Definition of Run out

1. Verb. Become used up; be exhausted. "Our supplies finally ran out"

2. Verb. Flow off gradually. "The water run outs "; "The rain water drains into this big vat"

3. Verb. Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry. "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

4. Verb. Lose validity. "My passports expired last month"

5. Verb. Flow, run or fall out and become lost. "Water and oil run out into the bowl"; "The wine spilled onto the table"

6. Verb. Exhaust the supply of. "We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting"

7. Verb. Prove insufficient. "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

8. Verb. Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working. "At the end of the march, I pooped out"

Definition of Run out

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of runout) ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To use up; to consume all of something. ¹

3. Verb. to expire, to come to an end ¹

4. Verb. (cricket) To get a batsman out via a run out (''see above''); ''or'', to be got out in this way. ¹

5. Verb. Of a legal right, to expire, to terminate. ¹

6. Verb. To extend a piece of material, or clothing. ¹

7. Verb. To conclude in, to end up ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run Out

run interference run into run into the ground run like a top run like the wind run low run of house run of play run of the mill run off

run off at the mouth run off with run on run on fumes run oneself ragged run out run out of steam run out on run out the clock run outs

run over run o’ the mill run rampant run rate run rings around run rings round run riot run roughshod run roughshod over run scared

Literary usage of Run out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"He 's been run for a year by Sir Toby Blaze, who would not have taken two hundred pounds for him, but Sir Toby was a little run out at the elbows, I reckon, ..."

2. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"L«t us run out and play one la t game in the snow. Do you know how to play the" game? Some of my little people seemed to know, and here they are. ..."

3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"suche a chafe, that he was like to run out of his wittes. Bat when he had raged a good while, and sawe how little helpe it did prevaile hym, ..."

4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"spur' is run out until the contraction of the channel produces a sufficient velocity, when the remainder of the opening is closed by a ..."

5. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"I must now run out for a walk. It is Sunday, and the horses are not used, and I must acquire some exercise, through the agency of my own legs, before dinner ..."

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