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Uncommonrun out
The correct spelling is run out.
How to pronounce run out
verb
Say it like: Run- ow-t
The correct spelling is run out. To use up; to consume all of something. For example: "If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream."
Usage Examples
“If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream.”
“My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now.”
“Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To use up; to consume all of something.
- 2.To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed.
- 3.To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)
- 4.To be got out in this way.
- 5.To extend a piece of material, or clothing.
noun
- 1.Something that has been run out.
- 2.A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
- 3.A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
- 4.Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
- 5.The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
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