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Definition of drought in English: droughtnoun draʊtdraʊt 1A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water. the cause of Europe's recent droughts mass noun crops have failed because of drought Example sentencesExamples - Across the world, extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more intense.
- It may be necessary to provide water for high-value trees and shrubs during dry periods or droughts to promote vigorous growth.
- The water hit me cool and refreshingly; like a rain storm after a prolonged drought.
- Earth is set to warm further in the decades ahead, bringing more and bigger fires, mudslides, heat waves, droughts, and powerful hurricanes.
- Floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts have created headlines in the UK over recent years.
- Others have argued that these periods of droughts are not abnormal.
- Tree rings can tell stories of fire history, seasons, droughts, and rainfall.
- The trip is made possible as after four years of drought, recent rainfall means crops may now grow.
- During climate extremes, whether droughts or flooding rains, those on the land feel it most.
- World temperatures are continuing to rise and extreme weather conditions, such as droughts, floods and heatwaves, are becoming alarmingly common.
- Chinese officials say cloud seeding has helped to relieve severe droughts and water shortages in cities.
- An increase in floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, and sea levels are also expected to bring a host of health problems in their wake.
- A high degree of soil exposure also results in high surface evaporation resulting in years of low rainfall becoming severe droughts.
- In many places, including the southern USA, hurricanes or tropical storms sometimes end droughts.
- We worked hard through droughts and downpours and no longer walked down to the far hayfield to dream.
- At the same time, large chunks of peninsular India receive less than normal rainfall, leading to droughts.
- That shows that we're having many more severe storms, floods, droughts, and heat waves.
- From hurricane to droughts, weird weather can shake up the economy.
- In fact, tropical storms or hurricanes have ended many droughts in Texas, and other parts of the world.
- The drought began to break in mid-December when heavy general rain fell in Victoria, with more after Christmas.
Synonyms dry spell, dry period, lack of rain, shortage of water Scottish drouth - 1.1 A prolonged absence of a specified thing.
he ended a five-game goal drought Example sentencesExamples - On the rostrum, it became clear just how much winning meant to him after an 11-month drought.
- One can only hope that, after the relative goal drought of two years ago in Mali, they and the other 15 nations put on a more exciting spectacle.
- Dennis Wise's glancing header ended the team's goal drought - spanning 588 minutes.
- Robbie Blake curled a trademark free kick just wide and then slipped at the crucial moment when he seemed certain to end his worrying goal drought.
- After a long playoff drought, Blackhawks fans starving for success got, well, nothing.
- The Hatters were truly woeful and rarely looked set to end their goal drought.
- The same happened to him two years ago, when after a goal drought he was about to be farmed out to the lower leagues.
- I am going through a bit of a goal drought at the moment and it would be nice to get a goal or even a few before the end of the season.
- This has been despite a well documented two year goal drought.
- Bron wants to solve the current armed forces recruitment drought.
- Sam must be seriously concerned at a goal drought that threatens to drag us into a relegation struggle.
- Davies' victory in Sydney ended a 13-month title drought for the Coventry-born player.
- Is the West in any position to withstand another oil drought?
- All of Philadelphia is hoping to end that poor town's championship drought.
- Ward broke a 13-game scoring drought at Wimbledon and believes that could be the springboard for a goal burst of his own.
- Manchester United's championship drought is over and the fences with the manager have been mended.
- The Tallaght man needs to get his act together and tomorrow night would be the perfect time to end his recent goal drought.
- And the tourism drought hits the Midwest less hard than other parts of the country.
- Ferrari endured a 16-year drought before regaining their title touch.
- So England's men's championship drought continues beyond its 68th year or whatever!
Synonyms lack, want, non-existence, unavailability, deficiency, deprivation, dearth
2dialect, archaic mass noun Thirst. I asked for something to slake my drought
Origin Late Old English drūgath 'dryness', of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte; related to dry. Rhymes about, bout, clout, devout, doubt, down-and-out, flout, gout, grout, knout, lout, mahout, misdoubt, nowt, out, out-and-out, owt, pout, Prout, right about, rout, scout, shout, snout, spout, sprout, stout, thereabout, thereout, throughout, timeout, tout, trout, way-out, without Definition of drought in US English: droughtnoundraʊtdrout 1A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water. Example sentencesExamples - From hurricane to droughts, weird weather can shake up the economy.
- It may be necessary to provide water for high-value trees and shrubs during dry periods or droughts to promote vigorous growth.
- In fact, tropical storms or hurricanes have ended many droughts in Texas, and other parts of the world.
- A high degree of soil exposure also results in high surface evaporation resulting in years of low rainfall becoming severe droughts.
- We worked hard through droughts and downpours and no longer walked down to the far hayfield to dream.
- During climate extremes, whether droughts or flooding rains, those on the land feel it most.
- Floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts have created headlines in the UK over recent years.
- Chinese officials say cloud seeding has helped to relieve severe droughts and water shortages in cities.
- In many places, including the southern USA, hurricanes or tropical storms sometimes end droughts.
- Across the world, extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more intense.
- The trip is made possible as after four years of drought, recent rainfall means crops may now grow.
- An increase in floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, and sea levels are also expected to bring a host of health problems in their wake.
- At the same time, large chunks of peninsular India receive less than normal rainfall, leading to droughts.
- That shows that we're having many more severe storms, floods, droughts, and heat waves.
- The drought began to break in mid-December when heavy general rain fell in Victoria, with more after Christmas.
- World temperatures are continuing to rise and extreme weather conditions, such as droughts, floods and heatwaves, are becoming alarmingly common.
- Tree rings can tell stories of fire history, seasons, droughts, and rainfall.
- The water hit me cool and refreshingly; like a rain storm after a prolonged drought.
- Earth is set to warm further in the decades ahead, bringing more and bigger fires, mudslides, heat waves, droughts, and powerful hurricanes.
- Others have argued that these periods of droughts are not abnormal.
Synonyms dry spell, dry period, lack of rain, shortage of water - 1.1 A prolonged absence of a specified thing.
he ended a five-game hitting drought Example sentencesExamples - On the rostrum, it became clear just how much winning meant to him after an 11-month drought.
- Ferrari endured a 16-year drought before regaining their title touch.
- The Hatters were truly woeful and rarely looked set to end their goal drought.
- Bron wants to solve the current armed forces recruitment drought.
- Robbie Blake curled a trademark free kick just wide and then slipped at the crucial moment when he seemed certain to end his worrying goal drought.
- Sam must be seriously concerned at a goal drought that threatens to drag us into a relegation struggle.
- All of Philadelphia is hoping to end that poor town's championship drought.
- I am going through a bit of a goal drought at the moment and it would be nice to get a goal or even a few before the end of the season.
- Davies' victory in Sydney ended a 13-month title drought for the Coventry-born player.
- Dennis Wise's glancing header ended the team's goal drought - spanning 588 minutes.
- The same happened to him two years ago, when after a goal drought he was about to be farmed out to the lower leagues.
- One can only hope that, after the relative goal drought of two years ago in Mali, they and the other 15 nations put on a more exciting spectacle.
- Ward broke a 13-game scoring drought at Wimbledon and believes that could be the springboard for a goal burst of his own.
- So England's men's championship drought continues beyond its 68th year or whatever!
- Is the West in any position to withstand another oil drought?
- This has been despite a well documented two year goal drought.
- The Tallaght man needs to get his act together and tomorrow night would be the perfect time to end his recent goal drought.
- And the tourism drought hits the Midwest less hard than other parts of the country.
- Manchester United's championship drought is over and the fences with the manager have been mended.
- After a long playoff drought, Blackhawks fans starving for success got, well, nothing.
Synonyms lack, want, non-existence, unavailability, deficiency, deprivation, dearth
2dialect, archaic Thirst. I asked for something to slake my drought
Origin Late Old English drūgath ‘dryness’, of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte; related to dry. |