Definition of Run out

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

Generic synonyms: Cease, End, Finish, Stop, Terminate

2. Verb. Flow off gradually. "The water run outs "; "The rain water drains into this big vat"
Exact synonyms: Drain
Generic synonyms: Course, Feed, Flow, Run
Derivative terms: Drain, Drainage

3. Verb. Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry. "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"
Exact synonyms: Beetle Off, Bolt, Bolt Out, Run Off
Generic synonyms: Go Away, Go Forth, Leave

4. Verb. Lose validity. "My passports expired last month"
Exact synonyms: Expire
Generic synonyms: Discontinue
Derivative terms: Expiration

5. Verb. Flow, run or fall out and become lost. "Water and oil run out into the bowl"; "The wine spilled onto the table"
Exact synonyms: Spill
Related verbs: Slop, Spill, Splatter
Generic synonyms: Course, Feed, Flow, Run
Specialized synonyms: Brim Over, Overflow, Overrun, Run Over, Well Over
Derivative terms: Spill, Spill

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"
Exact synonyms: Fail, Give Out

8. Verb. Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working. "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
Exact synonyms: Conk Out, Peter Out, Poop Out, Run Down
Generic synonyms: Fatigue, Jade, Pall, Tire, Weary

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 (current term)
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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