run low

run low
verb
to be spent or finished
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The money had gone after a few days

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Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest

Syn: ↑run short, ↑go
Hypernyms: ↑end, ↑stop, ↑finish, ↑terminate, ↑cease
Verb Group: ↑go
Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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supplies were running low: DWINDLE, diminish, become depleted, be used up, be in short supply, be tight.
run

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run low
To run short
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Main Entry:run

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run low (or short)
become depleted

supplies had run short

have too little of something

we're running short of time


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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