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RUN LOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run low mean? 

RUN LOW (verb)
  The verb RUN LOW has 1 sense:

1. to be spent or finishedplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RUN LOW (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 low" 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 


My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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