run dry

Verb

Meaning

become empty of water

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Synonyms

dry out contract decrease waste blow consume disappear sink fade evaporate dissipate wane atrophy corrode ebb
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Antonyms

well last increase develop rise build
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Hypernyms

DRY dry out

Examples

The river runs dry in the summer Source: Internet

After it ended, Eisner and Iger worked together producing and selling original comics material, anticipating that the well of available reprints would soon run dry, though their accounts of how their partnership was founded differ. Source: Internet

Beit Daras was located 32km north-east of Gaza, on an elevated ground, perched gently between a large hill and a small river that seemed to never run dry. Source: Internet

Son predicts it "will probably run dry in about two years," so he's looking ahead and setting his sights high. Source: Internet

Had irrigation districts, by far the biggest users of water on the prairies, not shared some of the water they were allocated, many municipal water supplies would have run dry. Source: Internet

Those tears sprang from a wellspring of "naive idealism" that I thought had run dry. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

run deep run down run down the clock run efficiently run errands run faster than