play out

Verb

Meaning

deplete

become spent or exhausted

play to a finish

perform or be performed to the end

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Examples

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy. Brion James

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them. Mark Waters

The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form. Jacob Bronowski

Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months - probably sooner - whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out. Thomas Friedman

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot! Charles Dickens

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out. Chiaki Kuriyama

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