Play Out

Definition: Play Out

Play Out

Verb

1. Deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength".

2. Perform or be performed to the end; "How will the election drama be played out?".

3. Play (a game) to a finish; "We have got to play this game out, even thought it is clear that we have last".

4. Become spent or exhausted; "The champion's strength played out fast".

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

Synonyms: Play Out

Completion

Do thoroughly, not do by halves,go the whole hog; drive home; be in at the death; (persevere) a; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the bill.

I've never heard Glenn Miller play out of a flower before (Rose Red; writing credit: Stephen King)

Well, bodies kept turning up in the bunkers, and you need air support to play out of the rough (Edge of Darkness; writing credit: Troy Kennedy-Martin)

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

Theater & Movies

• The Cure: Play Out (reference)

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Bulgarian 

изчерпвам се (dry up, fail, peter out, run out, wear, write out), изчерпвам (deplete, exhaust, impoverish, use up, wear), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick, trim). (various references)

French

jouer (play, play about, play over, ply). (various references)

German

zu ende spielen, darstellen (constitute, delineate, depict, describe, display, enact, impersonate, incarnate, introduce, offer, paint, personate, picture, play, plot, portray, pose, present, produce, render, represent, tender, to depict, to personate, to represent), ausbeuten (deplete, exploit, overwork, to exploit, utilize, work, work out). (various references)

Hungarian

zeneszóval búcsúztat (to play out), végigjátszik (to play out). (various references)

Italian

mettere in atto (execute). (various references)

Manx

cloie gys y jerrey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ayplay outay.(various references)

Spanish

representar hasta el final, agotar (consume, deplete, distress, drain, exhaust, exhaust a well, expend, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, knock out, knock up, sap, spend, take out, tire out, use up, waste, wear, wear down, work out), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, use up, wash out, waste, wind up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

spela till slut. (various references)

Turkish

tükenmek (be consumed away, be exhausted, come to an end, die off, die out, drain away, fail, go, peter out, run out, waste, waste away, wear away, 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, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up). (various references)

Ukrainian

втрачати силу, дограти до кінця. (various references)

Misspellings

"Play Out" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: playout. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outplay.

-1 letter: layout, outlay, payout.

-2 letters: aptly, atopy, layup, patly, platy, poult, pouty, typal.

-3 letters: alto, atop, auto, lota, loup, lout, opal, paly, paty, plat, play, plot, ploy, poly, pout, pula, tola, tolu, typo, yaup.

-4 letters: alp, alt, apt, lap, lat, lay, lop, lot, oat, opt, out, pal, pat, pay, ply, pol, pot, pul, put, pya.

+1 letter: outplays.

+2 letters: outplayed, patchouly.

+3 letters: captiously, copulatory, eucalyptol, outplaying, plutocracy, polyanthus, popularity, postulancy, poultryman, voluptuary.

+4 letters: autocephaly, counterplay, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, exculpatory, inculpatory, paramountly, rapturously, stipulatory, sympetalous, unstoppably.

+5 letters: conceptually, counterplays, eucalyptoles, hypothalamus, incomputably, lymphomatous, manipulatory, pneumatology, polyanthuses, polypetalous, polyurethane, preovulatory, supplicatory, unpopularity, unprofitably.