Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb run_short
1 sense of run short
Sense 1
run low, run short, go -- (to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest")
=> end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo")