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RUN OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
Example:
At the end of the march, I pooped out
Synonyms:
conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prove insufficient
Example:
The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Become used up; be exhausted
Example:
Our supplies finally ran out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Verb group:
run out (exhaust the supply of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Exhaust the supply of
Example:
We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))
Verb group:
run out (become used up; be exhausted)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
Example:
When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out
Synonyms:
beetle off; bolt; bolt out; run off; run out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Flow, run or fall out and become lost
Example:
The wine spilled onto the table
Synonyms:
run out; spill
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Verb group:
slop; spill; splatter (cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run out"):
brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over (flow or run over (a limit or brim))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 7
Meaning:
Flow off gradually
Example:
The rain water drains into this big vat
Synonyms:
drain; run out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sentence example:
The water run outs
Sense 8
Meaning:
Lose validity
Example:
My passports expired last month
Synonyms:
expire; run out
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "run out" is one way to...):
discontinue (come to or be at an end)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
A stable-boy had run out to the horse’s head, and springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding gravel-drive which led to the house.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once they run out of this fuel, they puff up into red giants, becoming hundreds of times larger and engulfing nearby planets.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
The scientists believe that only certain types of coral are able to reach these new locations, based on how far their microscopic larvae can drift on currents before they run out of limited fat stores.
(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)
Her voice was soft and sweet, and persuasive at the first, but louder it rang and louder as it spoke of wrongs and freedom and the joys of death in a good cause, until it thrilled into my every nerve, and I asked nothing more than to run out of the cottage and to die then and there in the cause of my country.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the Kennington Road. The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments. He rushed out into the road, but, although several passers-by declared that they had noticed a man run out of the shop, he could neither see anyone nor could he find any means of identifying the rascal. It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such. The plaster cast was not worth more than a few shillings, and the whole affair appeared to be too childish for any particular investigation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The fuel had run out, and there was need to get more.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But, if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate, like a private person.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Ain't run out?" Bill asked anxiously.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Then he was very angry, and went without his supper to bed; but when he laid his head on the pillow, the pin ran into his cheek: at this he became quite furious, and, jumping up, would have run out of the house; but when he came to the door, the millstone fell down on his head, and killed him on the spot.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
