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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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... where the ladders were set, with the huge bird carried in the arms of Ossaroo, they made ready for its flight. Karl was to start the kite, and guide its ascent from the ground; while Caspar and the shikaree were to run out with the rope: as it would require the united strength of both to hold such a broad-breasted bird against the wind. They had taken the precaution to cut away the bushes to a long distance backwards from the cliff, ...

— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid

... Then the number of knots shown by the log line must be doubled. The principle of the chip log is that each division of the log line bears the same ratio to a nautical mile that the log glass does to the hour. In other words, if 10 knots or divisions of the log line run out while the 28 second glass empties itself, the ship's speed is 10 knots per hour. If ten knots or divisions run out while the 14 second glass empties itself, the ship's speed is 20 knots ...

— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper

... Delano hailed his own vessel, ordering the ports up, and the guns run out. But by this time the cable of the San Dominick had been cut; and the fag-end, in lashing out, whipped away the canvas shroud about the beak, suddenly revealing, as the bleached hull swung round towards the open ocean, death for ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... rain cloud and the bay, and actually swam up half a mile or so into the air. One man said that he had a barrel with both ends knocked out, and the rain went in at the bung hole faster than it could run out at ...

— The Land of the Kangaroo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent • Thomas Wallace Knox

... hat, with nothing in it that was not wooden, for all men to bow down before. The periwig style had its natural place in the age of Louis XIV., and there were certainly brains under it. But it had run out in France, as the tie-wig style of Pope had in England. In Germany it was the mere imitation of an imitation. Will it be believed that Gottsched recommends his Art of Poetry to beginners, in preference to Breitinger's, because it "will enable them to ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

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