intransitive to use all of something and not have any left
run out of:
Many hospitals are running out of money.
Synonyms and related words
To use all or a lot of something
use up
run out
eat into
2
intransitive if something runs out, you do not have any more of it left
They returnedhome from South Africa when their moneyran out.
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
3
intransitive if time is running out, you do not have long to do something
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
4
intransitive if a pen runs out, it has no more ink left in it
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
5
intransitive if an official agreement or document runs out, it stops being legal at a certain date
My contractruns out next July.
When does your passportrun out?
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
6
transitive if someone is run out in cricket, they have to stop hitting the ball and leave the field because the other team hits one set of stumps (=sticks) with the ball before they can reach it
Synonyms and related words
Cricket
the Ashes
at stumps
bail
7
run someone out of townold-fashionedto make a criminal or a person who you do not like leave a town
Synonyms and related words
To force someone to leave a place
drive out
banish
send away
run out
phrasal verb
Other entries for this word
run out onphrasal verb
run out/sell outphrase
run out of gasphrase
run out of roadphrase
run out of gas/steamphrase
run out of/lose steamphrase
work/cry/run etc. your guts outphrase
run out the clockphrase at run the clock down
Word Forms
present tense
I/you/we/they
run out
he/she/it
runs out
present participle
running out
past tense
ran out
past participle
run out
DEFINITIONS6
use all of something
have none left
time: not much left
stop being legal
pen: have no ink
phrase
1
intransitive to use all of something and not have any left
run out of:
Some hospitals are running out of bloodsupplies.
Synonyms and related words
To use all or a lot of something
use up
run out
eat into
2
intransitive if something runs out, you do not have any more of it left
They returnedhome from South Africa when their moneyran out.
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
3
intransitive if time is running out, you do not have long to do something
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
4
intransitive if an official agreement or document runs out, it stops being legal at a certain date
My contractruns out next July.
When does your passportrun out?
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
5
intransitive if a pen runs out, it has no more ink left in it
Synonyms and related words
To come to an end
come to an end
pass
run out
6
run someone out of townold-fashionedto make a criminal or a person who you do not like leave a town