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Play out   /pleɪ aʊt/   Listen
Play out

verb
1.
Deplete.  Synonyms: exhaust, run down, sap, tire.  "We quickly played out our strength"
2.
Perform or be performed to the end.
3.
Play to a finish.
4.
Become spent or exhausted.





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"Play out" Quotes from Famous Books



... they gave me room; and had I hastened, I had doubtless gone at large without more ado. But at this very apex point of hazard I must needs play out the part of unalarm to the fool's envoi, taking time to part the mare's forelock under the head-stall, and looking leisurely to the lacings of ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... by this shed for the shuttle, which, by the second motion, is thrown from one side of the loom to the other by the weaver's hand, and thus goes over every alternate thread. The revolving quill within the shuttle lets the weft-thread play out during this side-to-side motion of the shuttle. The shuttle must not be thrown too sharply else it will rebound and make a slack thread in the weft. By the third motion the batten crowds this weft-thread ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... which horses and mules plunged, dropped down, rolled over, and then got up to nicker and bray. The young mules did everything but drink, while the horses were crazy with delight. When the wagon came up we went into camp and left them to play out their hands. There was no herding to do that night, as the water would hold them as readily as a ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... He was a chess-player, and, when travelling alone, he used to carry a book with diagrams of partially-played games, in which it is required to give checkmate in a fixed number of moves. He would study one of them, and then, shutting the book, play out the game mentally. ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville
... sense, the girl thought it best to play the play out. After all, a good deal depended on it, to her thinking. She looked into his eyes. She saw there an almost childlike sincerity of purpose. If truth did not lie in the well of those eyes, then truth is not to be found in mortal orbs at all. But the quick and ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy


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