Run Out

Definition: Run Out

Run Out

Verb

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

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

3. Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out".

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

5. Flow, run or fall out and become lost, as of a liquid; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table".

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

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

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Run Out

Course

Run out, expire; go by, pass by; be -past.

Diffuseness

Verb: be diffuse; Adjective: run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.

End

Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

Oldness

Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand.

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

The Past

Adjective: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete; (old).

Waste

Leak; (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

Crosswords: Run Out

What, did they run out of soap at the Piggly Wiggly? (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Actually, I think you'll have to run out, but yes, that's what you have to do. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

Your lifelong dream was to run out onto the field at a baseball game, and you did it, last year! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Oh, did you finally run out of couples in your own group? (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)

You know what that means, don't you? It means your luck's gotta run out. (Hall of Mirrors; writing credit: Brad Osborne)

We run up in there, e'rybody come out, don't nobody run out (Party Up; performing artist: DMX)

The clock's run out, time's up, over blast (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

But I've run out of patience (Special; performing artist: Garbage)

You have just run out of ammunition, (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

I just run out of things to say (I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song; performing artist: Jim Croce)

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dollars and Sense for College Students: Or How Not to Run Out of Money by Mid-Terms (Princeton Review Series) (reference)

• Things to Worry About in Case You Run Out (reference)

• What If We Run Out of Fossil Fuels? (What If) (reference)

• When You Run Out of Soap: Fun Activities of Children 4 to 7 (reference)

• Where the trails run out (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• All Luck Run Out [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Plate 15. The Sigsbee Sounding Machine in Position: Run out for Work. In: "Deep-sea Sounding and Dredging" by Charles D. Sigsbee, 1880. Library Call Number GC75.S53 1880. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

In New York Harbor, during her Spanish-American War service, 1898. Her turret guns are run out, in firing position. Photographed by Hart. Credit: NAVY.

A side-wheel steamer, built at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, Planter was run out of Charleston and delivered to the Federals in the early morning of 13 May 1862 by her pilot, Robert Smalls, a slave. She also brought several other black men, women and children to freedom. Planter subsequently served in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Hope I don't run out of Republicans!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dadbing these pups that run out unexpectedly. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Philippines

Monthly exports continue to grow but at increasingly slower rates, suggesting that the export boom has run out of steam. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

An investigation initiated in July by the PGR indicated that these persons formed part of a political eavesdropping and surveillance ring allegedly run out of the Mexico state governor's office. (references)

Political Economy

France

After a record four years in office, Jospin has had to contend with perceptions his government has run out of momentum and new ideas. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

However, on December 19, Judge Juana Mendez dropped the rape charges against Ortega on the grounds that the 5-year statute of limitations, which began when Narvaez filed her complaint in 1999, not his December renunciation of immunity, had run out. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "run out": run out of ♦ run out of funds ♦ run out of gas ♦ run out of money ♦ run out of time ♦ run out on ♦ To run out. Additional references.

Albanian

zbrazet (empty, pour), derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run over, sluice, spill, stream), dal me vrap, dal (appear, arise, beetle, brush off, come into being, come out, come up, creep out, develop, egress, emerge, erupt, exhaust, exit, flow out, get out, get out of, go out, leave, let out, open, sprout, stand out, stick up, turn out, turn up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضى (go, go on doing, leave), ‏نفد (give out), ‏خرج للأبد, ‏إنتهى (determine, do, end, fall out, finish, have smth. done, issue, pack up, turn out, wink), ‏إحتاج (crave, demand, lack, need, require, want). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ставам невалиден, свършвам се (end, finish, give out), свършва ми се, развивам се (come round, flower, germ, grow, progress, quicken, roll off, shape up, turn out), възлизам (add to, amount, figure out, reach, run up, tot up, work out), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), зарязвам (abandon, cut out, drop off, overboard, pack in, put away, put on the shelf, quit, stand up, throw over, throw up, walk out on), изчерпвам се (dry up, fail, peter out, play out, wear, write out), изтичвам навън, изтичам (determine, escape, expire, finish, issue, leak, outflow, run, run off, sluice, wear through), издавам се навън (jetty). (various references)

Chinese 

期滿 (to come to an end, to expire, to run out). (various references)

Czech

vybìhnout (come up), vyèerpat se (become exhausted, give out, spend), nemít, dojít (arise, arrive, come to, give out). (various references)

Danish

udvaskes (break back, spawl forward, spill out). (various references)

Dutch

uitloop (barnyard, open yard, outdoor run, overrun, run), afglijten (break back, spawl forward, spill out). (various references)

French

venir � manquer, sortir en courant, se délaver, s'épuiser, s'écouler (run), expirer, couler (run). (various references)

German

auslaufen (be discontinued, come to a stop, discharge, drain, ease off, empty, escape, leak, leak out, leakage, put out, run, rundown, sail, slow down). (various references)

Greek 

εξαντλούμαι (give out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאזול (be exhausted, be used up, cease, give out, run short), לכלות (be finished, die out, end, perish, use up), ל�"�'מר (be finished, eventuate, expire, give out), ל�"סתים (conclude, end, finish, pass, terminate). (various references)

Hungarian

kirohan (fly out, to bolt out, to dash out, to flounce out, to make a sally, to rush out, to shoot out), kimerül (drain, Peter, run down, to be at an end, to be run down, to crap out, to drain, to fatigue, to give out, to peter out), kifutás (landing run, pulling out), kifut (to pull out, to run out), kifolyik (flow out, to effuse, to issue, to issue out, to leak, to run out), elfogy (Peter, to consume, to give out, to run out, to run short, to waste). (various references)

Indonesian

kehabisan (depletion, no more left, run out of). (various references)

Italian

scarto (board, difference, discard, margin, reject, rejection, scrap, wastage, waste), scarseggiare (be lacking, be short, lack), finire (accomodate, accomplish, cease, close, complete, conclude, do, end, expire, finish, get to, kill, pass, sell out, spend, stop, terminate), esaurire (consume, deplete, dry, exhaust, get exhausted, overcrop, sell out, spend, to consume, use up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

尽くす (to befriend, to exhaust, to run out, to serve a person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たねぎれになる (to be out of resources, to run out of stock), たねぎれ (run out of), くれる (to be given, to close, to come to an end, to do for one, to end, to get dark, to give, to let one have, to run out), きらす (to be out of, to be out of stock, to be short of, to run out of), さけ�'たやす (to run out of wine), つくす (to befriend, to devote, to exhaust, to run out, to serve), つきる (to be consumed, to be exhausted, to be run out, to be used up, to come to an end), かれる (to be blasted, to die, to dry up, to run out, to wither), あいそ�'つかす (to be disgusted with, to fall out of love, to run out of patience), もる (to fill up, to leak, to prescribe, to run out, to serve). (various references)

Manx

skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, leakage, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, scatter, scattering, scramble, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfix, unfurl, unfurling), roie magh (flow out, issue, issuing, projecting over), cur magh (board out, deal, delegate, delegation, dispatch, dispensation, dispense, displace, edition, eject, ejection, emission, emit, evacuate, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, turn out), ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rain, rake, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray outay

Portuguese

gastar (batter, consume, disburse, expend, go, pay out, run out of, run through, scuff, serve, spend, take, waste), ficar sem a gasolina (run out of gas), ficar sem (run out of), esgotar (consume, deplete, do in, dry, empty, exhaust, expend, fatigue, fork, impoverish, outwear, overdrive, overstrain, pump up, rack, run out of, sap, spend, tire, use up, wear out, weary, work out), desapontar (deceive, disappoint, fail, frustrate, let down, mock, run out on), consumir (absorb, consume, devour, eat up, expend, gnaw, pass, run out of, spend, swallow, torment, use up, waste, wear). (various references)

Russian 

кончаться (determine, end, eventuate, expire, finish, result, terminate), вытечь (flow out), отбегать, истекать (elapse, expire, flux, outflow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proteći (expire, flow, pass), potrošiti (consume, deplete, expend, use up), ponestati (be short of, give out, give over), napustiti (abandon, cast off, desert, desolate, drop, drop out, fall away, forsake, give away, jilt, leave, quit, take leave of, throw over, vacate, walk out), istrčati, isticati (assert, outflow), isterati (dislodge, drive out, evict, exorcise, exorcize, expel, oust, push out, ride, scavenge, throw out), isteći (escape, expire, lapse), dotrajati (dilapidate, last). (various references)

Spanish

salir corriendo (burst out, set off running), ir dando (tick away, tick by, tough, tread, tread down), acabarse (break, die, fail, finish, give out, leak, terminate). (various references)

Swedish

lägga ut (expend, farm out, job out, lay out, let out, outlay, plot, push off, put out, subcontract). (various references)

Turkish

tükenmek (be consumed away, be exhausted, come to an end, die off, die out, drain away, fail, go, peter out, play out, waste, waste away, wear away, wear out), sona ermek (be at an end, bust, bust up, cease, come to a head, come to an end, die, discontinue, end, end off, expire, finish, leave off, quit, terminate, wind up), sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, seep, transpire, transude, trickle, weep), kovalamak (chase, drive, follow up, give chase, Hunt, pursue, run after, tag, tag after, tag along), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), dışarı koşmak, dışarı atmak (expel, out, put out, shoot out, throw out, turf out), bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, break up, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, lay off, leave off, quit, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, consume, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up), akmak (bleed, course, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up), çıkıntı yapmak (beetle, bulge, jut, jut out, overhang, protrude, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references)

Ukrainian

витікати (drain, emanate, leak away, ooze, outstream, spring, spring out), вибігати (outrun), закінчуватися (conclude, elapse, end, end off, end up, go out, issue, result in, terminate, wane, waste). (various references)

excurram, excursus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outrun, runout.

-2 letters: rout, runt, torn, tour, turn, unto.

-3 letters: nor, not, nut, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, tor, tun, urn.

-4 letters: no, nu, on, or, to, un, ut.

+1 letter: burnout, outburn, outrung, outruns, outturn, runouts, turnout.

+2 letters: burnouts, outburns, outburnt, outdrunk, outturns, runabout, surmount, turnouts.

+3 letters: cothurnus, groundnut, groundout, outburned, outnumber, runabouts, strenuous, surmounts, turnabout, uncorrupt, untutored, upcountry, venturous.

+4 letters: countersue, groundnuts, groundouts, nutritious, outarguing, outburning, outcursing, outnumbers, outpouring, outrebound, outrunning, outrushing, punctuator, roundabout, subroutine, surmounted, thunderous, tourniquet, turnabouts, turnaround, ultrasound, undercount, undulatory, unneurotic, untroubled, usurpation.