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RUN SHORT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To be spent or finished

Example:

Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest

Synonyms:

go; run low; run short

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "run short" is one way to...):

cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)

Verb group:

go (be spent)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

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