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Drought

/[dɹʌʊt]/ name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. countable, uncountable

    "His village had faced a drought twice."

  2. 2
    a shortage of rainfall wordnet
  3. 3
    A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. broadly, countable, informal, uncountable

    "Sri Lanka ended their ten-game drought with a consolation win over Bangladesh."

  4. 4
    a prolonged shortage wordnet
  5. 5
    dryness, aridness, dry heat archaic, countable, uncountable

    "Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes."

Etymology

From Middle English droughte, droghte, drouȝte, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. By surface analysis, dry + -t (abstract nominal suffix).

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