run outverb

• 1

  To use up or consume all

  • Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out.
  • If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream.
• 2

  To expire; to come to an end.

  • My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now.
  • The option will run out next week and I can't get it extended.
• 3

  To expire; to come to an end.

  • Time is running out.
  • Oh no! The wine has run out!
• 4

  To expire; to come to an end.

  • After that series of confidence-giving wins, I think the team is going to run out their streak.
• 5

  ball-gamescricketgamesTo get a batsman out (dismissed from play) via a runout.

  • Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.
  • With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.
• 6

  To extend a piece of material, or clothing.

  • If I run out these curtains, they will fit the windows in the drawing room.
• 7

  To conclude in, to end up.

  • Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.
• 8

  To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being.

  • If the mob thinks you did it, they'll run you out of town.
  • They'll run us out of business doing that!

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• runout