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To run out

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)


      (b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.

   {To run down a coast}, to sail along it.

   {To run for an office}, to stand as a candidate for an
      office.

   {To run in} or {into}.
      (a) To enter; to step in.
      (b) To come in collision with.

   {To run in trust}, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.]

   {To run in with}.
      (a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker.
      (b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as,
          to run in with the land.

   {To run mad}, {To run mad after} or {on}. See under {Mad}.

   {To run on}.
      (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a
          year or two without a settlement.
      (b) To talk incessantly.
      (c) To continue a course.
      (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with
          sarcasm; to bear hard on.
      (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without
          making a break or beginning a new paragraph.

   {To run out}.
      (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out
          at Michaelmas.
      (b) To extend; to spread. ``Insectile animals . . . run
          all out into legs.'' --Hammond.
      (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful
          digressions.
      (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become
          extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will
          soon run out.

                And had her stock been less, no doubt She must
                have long ago run out.            --Dryden.

   {To run over}.
      (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs
          over.
      (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
      (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.

   {To run riot}, to go to excess.

   {To run through}.
      (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book.
      (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.

   {To run to seed}, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing
      seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease
      growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.

   {To run up}, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as,
      accounts of goods credited run up very fast.

            But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
            run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   {To run with}.
      (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the
          streets ran with blood.
      (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance.
          ``Its rivers ran with gold.'' --J. H. Newman.



   {To run off}, to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten
      metal from a furnace.

   {To run on} (Print.), to carry on or continue, as the type
      for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a
      new paragraph.

   {To run out}.
       (a) To thrust or push out; to extend.
       (b) To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate.
       (c) (Baseball) To put out while running between two
           bases.

   {To run} {the chances, or one's chances}, to encounter all
      the risks of a certain course.

   {To run through}, to transfix; to pierce, as with a sword.
      ``[He] was run through the body by the man who had asked
      his advice.'' --Addison.

   {To run up}.
       (a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
       (b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account.
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