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Meaning of 'drought' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Drought [ n.]
- Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
- Thirst; want of drink.
- Scarcity; lack.

Meaning of 'drought' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . drought [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a shortage of rainfall
Example in sentence:
  • farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season
Meaning (2):
- a prolonged shortage
Example in sentence:
  • when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought

Nearby Words:

drock drofland drogher drogman drogoman drogue droh droil droit droitural

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