drought
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- noun
- /draʊt/
:
sequía
- By the time we arrived in Mali in 1987, a persistent drought had already caused hardship.
- severe drought
- prolonged drought
- drought conditions
One was acts of nature in the form of droughts, floods and pandemics.
- One was acts of nature in the form of droughts, floods and pandemics.
- And Trump compared North Dakota's current drought to what Houston's going through right now.
- Now this year it's a drought that's pretty extreme.
- It needs to sequester carbon in a drought condition and in a flood.
- But Millet is so nutritious and so drought resistant.
- A big prime we have is droughts in Niger.
- And they ruined it because there were terrible droughts in Venezuela.
- And so these squash have been born and bred to survive in drought like conditions.
- And beetles can apparently sense trees that are stressed by drought.
- And what he meant was we haven't had snow in a month and we're on drought conditions already.
- The water level would go, would go down and there would be a drought.
- And we see a breakdown happening in the drought or the burning world.
- Rain on Roke, maybe drought and Oskill, he said.
Examples
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In the summer of 2007, Greece suffered its worst drought in a century of keeping records.
Academic text (2008) -
It's the first rain in months in what is obviously the relentless drought condition of Southern California.
Fiction book (1994) -
Where I come from, there's a terrible drought.
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Yet everywhere there was evidence of the damaging effects of the drought that plagued the entire countryside.
Fiction book (1994) -
Climate change is causing more frequent heat waves, longer droughts, and more destructive wildfires.
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The farmers were worried about the drought taking a toll on their crops this year.
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Due to the prolonged drought, the reservoirs have become dangerously low.
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The ongoing drought has led to restrictions on water usage across the region.
Synonyms
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A period with little or no rain that can mean a time without success
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Lack of water or wetness in something
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Very dry conditions because of little or no rain
A long time with little or no rain that makes the land very dry
A very dry area with little or no rain that makes plants hard to grow
The lack of water in a place
Antonyms
How Dry
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Drought comes from an old English form made from dry plus the ending -th, which meant 'the state of being dry'. So a drought is literally a long dry time, which is why we use it for a long period with little or no rain.