Dictionary Entry
drought
drought is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
- 2noun
Thirst; want of drink.
- 3noun
Scarcity; lack.
- 4noun
a shortage of rainfall
"farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"
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- 5noun
a prolonged shortage
"when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"
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