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Drought
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What's The Definition Of Drought?
[n] a temporary shortage of rainfall
[n] a prolonged shortage Synonyms | Synonyms for Drought: Related Terms | Find terms related to Drought: absence | appetite | aridity | aridness | beggary | canine appetite | corkiness | defectiveness | deficiency | deficit | deprivation | destitution | dryness | emptiness | empty stomach | famine | hollow hunger | hunger | hungriness | imperfection | impoverishment | incompleteness | juicelessness | lack | need | omission | polydipsia | relish | saplessness | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | starvation | stomach | sweet tooth | tapeworm | taste | thirst | thirstiness | torment of Tantalus | want | wantage | waterlessness | watertight integrity | watertightness See Also | dryness | period | period of time | time period | waterlessness | xerotes Drought In Webster's Dictionary \Drought\, n. [OE. droght, drougth, dru??, AS. druga?,
from drugian to dry. See {Dry}, and cf. {Drouth}, which shows
the original final sound.]
1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such
dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents
the growth of plants; aridity.
The drought of March hath pierced to the root.
--Chaucer.
In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. --Dryden.
2. Thirst; want of drink. --Johnson.
3. Scarcity; lack.
A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of
all history. --Fuller.
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