"run short" meaning in English

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      "form": "runs short",
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    },
    {
      "form": "running short",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ran short",
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    },
    {
      "form": "run short",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "run low"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "run out"
    }
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          "text": "How much ice cream is left? Are we running short?",
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              19
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          "text": "We're running short of wine. Could you fetch some more, please?",
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          "ref": "1959 February 7, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:",
          "text": "Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To have used up or consumed the majority (of something), so that little remains."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, or transitive with 'of') To have used up or consumed the majority (of something), so that little remains."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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          "text": "Patience is running short.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be nearly used up or consumed."
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  "word": "run short"
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        "singular",
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    },
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      "form": "running short",
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        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "ran short",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "run low"
    },
    {
      "word": "run out"
    }
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              6,
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          "ref": "1959 February 7, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:",
          "text": "Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To have used up or consumed the majority (of something), so that little remains."
      ],
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        "(intransitive, or transitive with 'of') To have used up or consumed the majority (of something), so that little remains."
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          "text": "Patience is running short.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be nearly used up or consumed."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "run short"
}