drought

Definition

Examples

The long drought has reduced the harvest in many farming regions.

Synonyms

• dry spellhaving a meaning similar to drought
• ariditythe quality of yielding nothing of value

Collocations

• Easy severe summer drought
  describing severe summer drought (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)
• Medium drought relief assistance for farmers
  describing drought relief assistance for farmers (a shortage of rainfall)
• Hard prolonged agricultural drought decimating crops
  to prolonged agricultural drought decimating crops, meaning to lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
• Very Hard end a protracted trophy drought triumphant
  to end a protracted trophy drought triumphant, meaning to have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical