Run out
Run out verb - Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working.
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
Both terms in one sentence
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When all lives run out, you can either quit the game outright or continue from the start of the current stage at the cost of 100 points, subtracted from ones you had at the start of the level.
Source: Video Game / Ninja Senki -
If you run out of food, the game will warn that you have met with famine and your units will rapidly start dying off.
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Initially the enormous amount of lives you start with 1001 sounds like youd never run out.
Source: Videogame / 1001 Spikes
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