run dry
Verb
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Verb
- To become dry; to cease to flow with water.
- Last summer the river ran dry.
- To run out; to be fully consumed; to expire.
- The beer soon ran dry so we cracked open a bottle of wine.
- I used to write short stories, but these days my inspiration has run dry.
- German: versiegen, vertrocknen
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