running low
Almost used up
Running low describes a supply that is nearly depleted: We're running low on gas, The printer is running low on ink.
The phrase suggests enough remains to function but not for long—a warning state before running out entirely.
It applies to anything consumable or finite: time, patience, money, energy.
- depletedSeverely reduced or emptied
- subsideDecrease in intensity
- down to the wireUnresolved until the final moment
- scarceIn short supply
- exhaustedUtterly depleted of energy
taper · diminished · dwindling · rationing · stretched thin · famine · ebb · outage · drained · shortage · insufficiency · lack · burnout · deficit · tight budget · declining · emptied · bare cupboard
- running outexpires, depletes, exhausts, drains, dwindles
- Running Lowin short supply, dried up, at a premium, next to nothing, thinning out
- battery statuscharged, charging, dead, depleted, drained
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
- depletingusing up, depleting, exhausting, draining, consuming
running lowabundant
Existing in great quantity
overflowing · plentiful · brimming · topped up · replete
running lowpiling up
Increasing in quantity
accumulating · building up · filling up · increasing · replenishing
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