runs dry
Loses all moisture
Runs dry describes a supply being exhausted or depleted.
A well runs dry when it no longer yields water.
A river runs dry during drought.
The phrase extends to anything that can be used up: My patience finally ran dry, The conversation ran dry after an hour.
Creativity, funding, and luck all run dry eventually.
- dried upDepleted of moisture
- evaporatesChanges from liquid to gas
- overuseExcessive employment of something
- desiccatesRemoves moisture completely
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
aridity · shrivels · drought · overextraction · natural resources · withers · mismanagement · exhausts · ennui · tears · tapped out · empties · hopelessness · parches · fatigue · exploitation · desertification · water shortage
liquid abundance
runs dryoverflows
Exceeds capacity and spills
floods · spills over · gushes · streams · wells up
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