Antonyms for run dry


Grammar : Verb


Definition of run dry

  • As in peter out : verb dwindle, decrease
  • As in waste : verb spend or use without thought; dwindle
  • As in dissipate : verb disappear
Example sentences :
  • Little by little the rivers begin to run dry—there is no rain to feed them.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • Yet the source of love and humor in Jewish poetry had not run dry.
  • Extract from : « Jewish Literature and Other Essays » by Gustav Karpeles
  • At length all this eloquence had run dry, and the business of the evening began.
  • Extract from : « Wenderholme » by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Neglected bearings which run dry are ruined in a short time.
  • Extract from : « Paper-Cutting Machines » by Niel, Jr., Gray
  • It was nothing but an empty watercourse into which he was staring—the river had run dry!
  • Extract from : « Gentlemen Rovers » by E. Alexander Powell
  • This showed that the stream of reinforcements was beginning to run dry.
  • Extract from : « South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) » by Louis Creswicke
  • She fell into a passion of tears and lamentation until her tears had run dry, and she was exhausted with sobbing.
  • Extract from : « Albrecht » by Arlo Bates
  • Afar, families were seen fleeing on horseback toward the bed of a creek which they hoped to find flowing, but which had run dry.
  • Extract from : « In The Boyhood of Lincoln » by Hezekiah Butterworth
  • It is out of the question to buy every convenient thing, or purse will run dry and house overflow.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 » by Various
  • Lacking the reinforcement of discussion, the stream of Mina's lamentation began to run dry.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope

Synonyms for run dry

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