Run Low

  

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Run Low

Definition: Run Low

Run Low

Verb

1. To be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest".

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


Synonyms: Run Low

Synonyms: go (v), run short (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Run Low

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Run Low

Specialty definitions using "run low": DOWN HILLS. (references)

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Modern Translation: Run Low

Language Translations for "run low"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

kifogy (give out, to peter out, to run low, to run out, to run short), fogytán van (to be coming to an end, to run low). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unray owlay

   

Portuguese

  

escassear (fall short, run short of, want). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

иссякать (peter out, run dry, run short). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agotarse (come out, give out, go out, lay up, peter out, wear out). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bitmek üzere olmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

виснажуватися (atrophy, collapse, emaciate, peter out), знижуватися (descend, lower, weaken, wither). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Run Low

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "l-n-o-r-u-w"

-2 letters: lorn, lour, lown, nurl, worn.

-3 letters: low, nor, now, our, owl, own, row, run, urn, won.

-4 letters: lo, no, nu, on, or, ow, un, wo.

 Words containing the letters "l-n-o-r-u-w"
 

+2 letters: lungworm, lungwort, wrongful.

 

+3 letters: lungworms, lungworts, sunflower, underflow, underwool, unworldly, wonderful.

 

+4 letters: loungewear, sunflowers, underflows, underwools, underworld, untowardly, unworkable, unworthily, wondrously, wrongfully.

 

+5 letters: belowground, counterblow, counterflow, furbelowing, groundswell, outbrawling, outcrawling, outwhirling, underworlds, unworkables, wonderfully.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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