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
- 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
- abate
- atrophy
- be of no avail
- blow
- burn up
- come to nothing
- consume
- corrode
- crumble
- debilitate
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- deplete
- die out
- diminish
- disable
- disappear
- dispel
- disperse
- dissipate
- dissolve
- divert
- drain
- drive away
- droop
- eat away
- ebb
- emaciate
- empty
- enfeeble
- evanesce
- evaporate
- exhaust
- fade
- fail
- fritter away
- frivol away
- gamble away
- give out
- gnaw
- go to waste
- lavish
- lessen
- lose
- melt away
- misapply
- misemploy
- misuse
- pall
- perish
- pour down the drain
- rebate
- recede
- run dry
- run out
- run through
- sap
- scatter
- sink
- splurge
- spread
- squander
- stop
- taper off
- thin
- throw away
- trifle away
- undermine
- vanish
- wane
- wear
- wear out
- wilt
- wither
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