Synonyms:
drought, drouth
Meaning: a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"
Synonyms:
drought, drouth
Meaning: a prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"
Usage examples
The drought had lasted six months.
When a drought breaks up I wish it wouldn't break up with such a terrible fuss.
The Garos of Assam offer a black goat on the top of a very high mountain in time of drought.
The Arabs of North Africa fling a holy man, willy-nilly, into a spring as a remedy for drought.
They have been known to keep frogs under a pot and to beat them with rods when there was a drought.
This, I take it, is the end of the drought, and a flood will come tumbling down from the mountains."
Yet he was sure that Lee and Jackson would attempt to force a passage higher up, where the drought had made good fords.
Then drought ensues, the most dreaded of all calamities in China, because bad harvests, dearth, and famine follow in its train.
There had been a long drought, and at some points the Rappahannock could be forded, but not in the face of such a defence as the North here offered.
For example, in Arcadia, when the corn and trees were parched with drought, the priest of Zeus dipped an oak branch into a certain spring on Mount Lycaeus.