running out

Verb

run out (third-person singular simple present runs out, present participle running out, simple past ran out, past participle run out)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) To use up or consume all
   • Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out.
2. (intransitive) To expire; to come to an end.
   • My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now.
   1. (intransitive) To be completely used up or consumed.
      • Time is running out.
   2. (intransitive) To continue a streak or string.
      • After that series of confidence-giving wins, I think the team is going to run out their streak.
3. To get a batsman out (dismissed from play) via a runout.
   • Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.
4. (transitive) To extend a piece of material, or clothing.
   • If I run out these curtains, they will fit the windows in the drawing room.

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