Antonyms for run out on
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : ruhn |
Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒn |
- accept
- accomplish
- achieve
- adopt
- advance
- aid
- allow
- appear
- approve
- arrive
- assert
- assist
- begin
- capture
- care
- cherish
- claim
- come
- come back
- come in
- complete
- confront
- continue
- dawdle
- defend
- do
- encounter
- enter
- face
- favor
- finish
- give
- go
- go back
- help
- hold
- join
- keep
- loosen
- maintain
- meet
- open
- pay
- persevere
- promise
- pursue
- rediscover
- remain
- retain
- return
- revert
- stand
- start
- stay
- stop
- succeed
- support
- take on
- unbolt
- unfasten
- unlock
- uphold
- wait
- walk
Definition of run out on
Origin :- the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").
- The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.
- Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).
- Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).
- To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.
- As in quit : verb abandon, leave
- As in bolt : verb run quickly away
- As in lam : verb escape
- As in abandon : verb leave behind, relinquish
- As in default : verb dodge payment
- As in desert : verb abandon, defect
- As in escape : verb break away from
- As in forsake : verb abandon, turn one's back on
- As in go back/go back on : verb break promise; change one's mind
Synonyms for run out on
- abandon
- abdicate
- abscond
- apostatize
- avoid
- back out
- bail out
- be unfaithful
- beach
- betray
- bilk
- blow
- bolt
- book
- bound
- bow out
- break out
- burst out
- cast off
- change one's tune
- check out
- chicken out
- chuck
- circumvent
- cop out
- crawl out
- cut and run
- cut loose
- cut out
- dart
- dash
- decamp
- defraud
- depart
- desert
- disappear
- discard
- disclaim
- discontinue
- dishonor
- disown
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- drift away
- drop
- drop out
- duck
- duck out
- dump
- dust
- elope
- elude
- emerge
- escape
- evacuate
- evade
- exit
- fail
- flake out
- flee
- flight
- fly
- fly the coop
- forgo
- forsake
- forswear
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- give up
- give up the ship
- go
- go away from
- go AWOL
- go back on
- go over the hill
- go scot-free
- go west
- hang it up
- have done with
- hightail
- hotfoot
- hurtle
- jettison
- jilt
- jump
- kiss goodbye
- leap
- leave
- leave flat
- leave hanging
- leave high and dry
- leave holding the bag
- leave in the lurch
- leave stranded
- leave town
- leg it
- let go
- light
- make a break for it
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- make tracks
- maroon
- meet under arch
- neglect
- opt out
- pass
- play hooky
- play truant
- pull out
- push off
- put on the cuff
- quit
- rat
- relinquish
- renege
- renounce
- repudiate
- resign
- retire
- retract
- return
- revert
- run
- run away
- run like scared rabbit
- run off
- run out on
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- screw
- see in the alley
- set aside
- ship out
- shirk
- show the door
- shun
- skate
- skedaddle
- skip
- skip out on
- slip
- slip away
- sneak off
- split
- spring
- sprint
- spurn
- start
- startle
- steal away
- step on it
- stiff
- stop
- storm out
- strand
- surrender
- swindle
- take a hike
- take a powder
- take a walk
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take off
- take on the lam
- take the oath
- tergiversate
- throw over
- vacate
- vanish
- violate oath
- walk
- walk out on
- wash hands of
- wash one's hands of
- welch
- welsh
- withdraw
- work out of
- wriggle out
- yield
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