run short

/rən ʃɔrt/
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Other forms: running short; ran short; runs short

Definitions of run short
  1. verb
    to be spent or finished
    synonyms: go, run low
    go
    be spent
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    type of:
    cease, end, finish, stop, terminate
    have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
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