Run Dry

Definition: Run Dry

Run Dry

Verb

1. Become empty of water; "The river runs dry in the summer.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Run Dry

Insufficiency

Verb: be insufficient; Adjective:; not suffice; come short of; run dry.

Waste

Leak; (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry, (Moonshadow; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

Cried until the tears run dry. (Somewhere Down The Road; performing artist: Faith Hill)

My inspiration has run dry (Torn; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia)

The conversation has run dry (Torn; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia)

But you can find me here till your tears run dry (Private Emotion; performing artist: Ricky Martin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏جف (drain, dry, dry up, season). (various references)

Finnish

kuivua (become dry, dry, dry up), juosta kuiviin (be drained), ehtyä (be exhausted, stop giving milk). (various references)

French

se tarir, être � sec. (various references)

German

versiegen (dry up, fail, peter out). (various references)

Hungarian

elapad (to be exhausted, to cease flowing, to dry up, to go dry, to run dry). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray ydray

Romanian

seca (drain, dry, empty, exhaust, peter out, torment, torture). (various references)

Russian 

высыхать (desiccate, dry, parch up), иссякать (peter out, run low, run short). (various references)

arescent, arescentes, arescentibus, arescet, arescit, aruerunt, aruit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: durn, durr, nurd, rynd, undy.

-3 letters: dry, dun, run, urd, urn.

-4 letters: nu, un.

+4 letters: understory.

+5 letters: corduroying, roughdrying, rudimentary, unhurriedly.