agotarse

v. wear out, give out; run low; lay up

(v.) = run down, peter out, run + short (of), run out, go out of + print, sell out, dry up, run out of, run + dry
Ex: A closed system will be subject to entropy -- the tendency for a system to run down through the loss of differentiation. Ex: Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months. Ex: The arguments are well known but we must realise that there was a very real fear that society would run short of manual labour = Los argumentos son bien conocidos pero debemos darnos cuenta de que había existía un miedo real de que la sociedad se quedase sin mano de obra. Ex: He continued writing for two years until his ink ran out. Ex: Zilg claims that his book 'Du Pont: Behind the nylon Curtain', which is highly critical of Du Pont, was allowed to go out of print prematurely as a direct result of pressure being brought to bear on the publisher by Du Pont. Ex: The first edition was quickly sold out, and I decided to revise it in the light of comments by colleagues and reviewers, and of developments in my own thinking. Ex: The article 'Slim chance for ethnic funding' explains how funding for library projects to provide assistance to ethnic minorities has almost dried up. Ex: The philosophy of science lacks a time dimension and seems to have run out of language to cope with all the abstractions needed. Ex: So stop fretting that UK unemployment is rising as the tax burden soars, consumers stop spending and North Sea oil runs dry.

= exhaust, deplete.
Ex: The potential areas of application of PRECIS are far from being exhausted.
Ex: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
----
* agotar el espacio = run out of + space.
* agotar el presupuesto = drain + budget.
* agotar + Posesivo + vida útil = run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
* agotarse = run down, peter out, run + short (of), run out, go out of + print, sell out, dry up, run out of, run + dry.
* agotarse el tiempo = time + run out.