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RELATED WORDS : bank run battle of bull run bombing run bone dry bull run chicken run dry dry battery dry cell dry cereal dry clean dry cleaner dry cleaners dry cleaning dry cure dry dock dry fly dry gangrene dry ice dry kiln dry land dry masonry dry measure dry milk dry mop dry mouth dry mustard dry nurse dry out dry pint dry plate dry plate process dry point dry quart dry rot dry run dry season dry socket dry unit dry up dry vermouth dry wall dry walling dry wash earned run earned run average end run floating dry dock fowl run freeze dry fun run high and dry home run in the long run long run mine run nonfat dry milk on the run pit run press run print run run run a risk run across run afoul run after run against run aground run along run amok run around run at run away run bases run batted in run by run down run for run in run into run low run off run on run out run over run ragged run riot run roughshod run short run the gauntlet run through run up run wild ski run split run suck dry sucked dry trial run tumble dry unearned run united states dry unit

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb run dry has 1 sense

• run dry(v = verb.weather) dry out - become empty of water; "The river runs dry in the summer"
is one way to dry, dry out
Sample sentence:
Something ----s

ROGET THESAURUS

run dry

Waste

VB spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust, impoverish, spill, drain, empty, disperse, cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away, burn the candle at both ends, waste, squander, waste its sweetness on the desert air, cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine, employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel, labor in vain, cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve, leak, run to waste, ebb, melt away, run dry, dry up.

Insufficiency

VB be insufficient, not suffice, come short of, run dry, want, lack, need, require, caret, be in want, live from hand to mouth, render insufficient Adj, drain of resources, impoverish, stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake.

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