"run out of gas" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: runs out of gas [present, singular, third-person], running out of gas [participle, present], ran out of gas [past], run out of gas [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|run<,,ran,run> out of gas}} run out of gas (third-person singular simple present runs out of gas, present participle running out of gas, simple past ran out of gas, past participle run out of gas)
  1. (informal, intransitive) To become exhausted. Tags: informal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-run_out_of_gas-en-verb-1Hr-ATuG
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run out, out of, gas.
    Sense id: en-run_out_of_gas-en-verb-vzQsRxxn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 78

Inflected forms

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