drought

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (countable, uncountable) A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
  2. (broadly, countable, informal, uncountable) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) dryness, aridness, dry heat

Opuesto a
winning streak
Sinónimos

dry weather

water shortage

drought disaster

crop failure

dry damage

rain-shortage

want of rain

want of water

year of drought

lack of rainfall

Frecuencia

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/dɹaʊt/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

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

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