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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

... was not conquered; for when it found itself being hauled alongside the yacht it suddenly sank, and nearly the whole of the length of rope that had been hauled in was allowed to run out again ere Harry, by taking a quick turn round the bitts, was able to stay its downward progress. And then it became a matter of sheer, downright drag by all hands ere the huge bulk could be brought near enough to the surface to permit of the use of their weapons on it, when it was found that ...

— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood

... between a couple of men, who stumbled in the darkness, close on their captain's heels. And the lady walked beside him and stood beside him without a word, in the falling rain. The boat went backwards and forwards twice; before the hour had run out, the luckless cargo was all once more landed, and the captain heard with infinite relief the last oar-strokes dwindling away in the distance, and saw the ...

— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... see, and friends, so called, into whose houses we had rarely, if ever ventured, came out to get a "mouthful of fresh air," and to "see something green." We lived at "such a convenient distance," that it was no trouble at all to run out and look at us. ...

— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur

... so low with the pneumonia Emmeline and me were all, alone with him most of the time and we never took a minute's sleep for as much as two days, and nights. It was at Newport and we wouldn't trust hired nurses. One afternoon he had a fit, and jumped up and run out on the portico of the hotel with nothing in the world on and the wind a blowing liken ice and we after him scared to death; and when the ladies and gentlemen saw that he had a fit, every lady scattered for her room and not a gentleman lifted his hand to help, the wretches! Well ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 4. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... proved to be so gloriously clear that instead of making the trip to Mortonstown by train Mr. Clark decided to run out in his touring-car. It was not a long ride—something over twenty-five miles—but to Thornton, unaccustomed to the luxury of a modern automobile, the journey ...

— The Story of Wool • Sara Ware Bassett

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