run dry

1. 1.

   become empty of water

   “The river runs dry in the summer”

   Synonymsdry out

   Broaderdry

Questions about run dry

What does run dry mean?

run dry means "become empty of water".

What is another word for run dry?

Close synonyms include dry out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is run dry a common word?

run dry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.