RUN OUT

run out phrasal verb ( see also ↑ run )

1 .

a) to use all of something and not have any more left:

I’ve got money you can borrow if you run out.

run out of

They ran out of money and had to abandon the project.

He’d run out of ideas.

b) if something is running out, there will soon be none left:

We must act now because time is running out.

My patience was running out.

His luck had run out (=there was none left) .

2 . if an agreement, official document etc runs out, the period for which it is legal or has an effect ends SYN expire :

My contract runs out in September.

3 . run out of steam informal ( also run out of gas American English ) to have no more energy or no longer be interested in what you are doing:

The team seemed to have run out of gas.

4 . run somebody out of town old-fashioned to force someone to leave a place, because they have done something wrong

5 . run somebody ↔ out to end a player’s ↑ innings in the game of ↑ cricket by hitting the ↑ stump s with the ball while they are running