run short

1. 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”

   Synonymsrun lowgo

   Broaderend

Questions about run short

What does run short mean?

run short means "to be spent or finished".

What is another word for run short?

Close synonyms include run low, go. 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 short a common word?

run short 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.