drought
a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
an extended shortage: a drought of good writing.
Archaic. thirst.
Origin of drought
1- Also drouth [drouth] /draʊθ/ .
pronunciation note For drought
In American English, drought with the pronunciation [drout] /draʊt/ is common everywhere in educated speech, and is the usual printed form.
Other words for drought
Words that may be confused with drought
- draught, drought
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How to use drought in a sentence
Droughts and food shocks may intensify political and military conflict: more resource wars, more grain-price revolutions.
Climate Change Needs the Politics of the Impossible | Jedediah Purdy | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut perhaps the biggest lesson from Texas is that severe droughts can drag on long past when the hills turn green.
The huge challenge of climate change and the related phenomenon of “extreme weather events” like hurricanes, floods and droughts.
The record-breaking heat, crippling worldwide droughts, and devastating fires of 2012 and floods were no coincidence, he said.
Best Moments From Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address | Ben Teitelbaum, Nina Strochlic | February 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHeat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense.
Full Text and Video of President Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address | Justin Green | February 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Rasyunan ang túbig sa tinghuwaw, Water is rationed during droughts.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan | John U. WolffThe prince ingratiates himself with her: she suppresses the periodical droughts and marries him.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney HartlandThere they entered a region which had been visited by one of those droughts which continue sometimes for many months.
The Life of Kit Carson | Edward S. EllisLet the Droughts and the Drummonds and the Beeswaxes quarrel among themselves or with their colleagues.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeAnd the same is also observed in America; for it is in long droughts that the insects make such destruction in the sugar-canes.
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple | John Claudius Loudon
British Dictionary definitions for drought
/ (draʊt) /
a prolonged period of scanty rainfall
a prolonged shortage
an archaic or dialect word for thirst Archaic and Scot form: drouth
Origin of drought
1Derived forms of drought
- droughty, adjective
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Scientific definitions for drought
[ drout ]
A long period of abnormally low rainfall, lasting up to several years.
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