RUN SHORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run short mean? 

• RUN SHORT (verb)
  The verb RUN SHORT has 1 sense:

1. to be spent or finished

  Familiarity information: RUN SHORT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN SHORT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To be spent or finished

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

go; run low; run short

Context example:

Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest

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

 Context examples 

At last the little money which I had saved began to run short, and I was at my wit’s end as to what I should do.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes were yellow and muddy, as though Nature had run short on pigments and squeezed together the dregs of all her tubes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"How dare you remind me of that horrid dinner party, when yours is so nice in every way?" added Jo, as they both laughed and ate out of one plate, the china having run short.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)