Hi e2e4,
Thank you for your comradely recommendation. It goes without saying that I know about the existence of the verb pour. For example: “Blood was pouring from his nose” and “She poured out all her troubles to him”. But I have to carry out a tricky piece of work. I make it my aim to remake the original sentence using collocations with the verb “run”
so I as a diligent apprentice sought the aid of my old Dictionary. My unsuccessful choice was “run out”. I accepted the following meaning of the expression in question namely “run out” = “to become void”.
You may add to your knowledge the following random excerpts from my Dictionary which has to do with the matter in question in order to understand my phrasing in the present case and find the the scarcely perceptible connection between "leaking" and "running out".
draw out, drain, run off, draw out
flaw, run out, escape
she has cried her eyes out
Drip out
bleed to death
run off into
drain
flaw off, flaw away
leak (v) = spill (v) = to cause or allow (a substance) to
run or
fall out of a container.
leak (v) = discharge
discharge pipe = any pipe that
conveys the discharge from plumbing fixtures,
appliances, or the like.
leak (v) = dripp (v) as in, his hand dripped with blood.
leak (v) = escape (v)
leak (v) = percolate = to
drain or seep through a porous material or filter or “
to pass or ooze through”as in:
Water percolated the sand.
Blood was still
oozing from the wound.
You have
running nose with
blood in cold time.
Thank you again for your Puritan exactness.
Regards.
V.