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Play out

verb

Deplete. Synonyms: exhaust, run down, sap, tire. "We quickly played out our strength"

Perform or be performed to the end.

Play to a finish.

Become spent or exhausted.

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"Play out" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Caroline, "I was not so prone to be taken with ridiculous recollections. But really to-night I could not get that old foolish child's play out ...

— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various

... were, I am convinced that it would be good. I have been allowed to play out my titanic struggle against ...

— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... come back from the sweet South, to the North Where I was born, bred, look to die; Come back to do my day's work in its day, Play out my play— Amen, ...

— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti

... to life. Wide-eyed, heavy-lipped, with the high cheek-bones of an Indian and uncut black hair bound with the knotted red MOUCHOIR, he looked more than ever like a pirate and a cutthroat to David. Such a man, he thought, might make play out of the business of murder. And yet, in spite of his ugliness, David felt again the mysterious inclination to like ...

— The Flaming Forest • James Oliver Curwood

... doesn't. Mamma isn't afraid of anything. That's why she lets me play out here alone when I want. Why, we had a robber once. Mamma got right up and found him. And what do you think! He was only a poor hungry man. And she got him plenty to eat from the pantry, and afterward she ...

— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London

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