Definition of "run short" []

• To be spent or finished (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "One of Sparta’s past Kings had run short of money and had married the daughter of a Corinthian merchant in order to obtain a dowry of 4,000 cattle."
• "Without Meleager to help him, Cletus would soon run short of money and be forced to give up the life of pleasure he now enjoyed .."
• "It had been an easy campaign; Jugurtha’s army never appeared, the settlements were incapable of resisting the Roman advance, and at no time had they run short of either food or water."