Synonyms for DROUGHT
drought

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1. drought

   Synonyms:
   dryness, aridity, parching, thirst

   Antonyms:
   moisture, refreshment, dew, deluge, slaking, quenching, watering, irrigation

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1. drought, drouthnoun

   a shortage of rainfall

   "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

   Synonyms:
   drouth, drought

2. drought, drouthnoun

   a prolonged shortage

   "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"

   Synonyms:
   drouth, drought

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1. • Dryness
   • Time Period

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1. droughtnoun

   Synonyms:
   dryness (of weather), aridity, drouth, want of rain

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1. droughtnoun

   Synonyms:
   aridity, dryness, scarcity, dearth

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1. List of paraphrases for "drought":

   droughts, dryness, arid, dry, drought-stricken, drought-related, aridity, sucha, drought-affected, driest, draught

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1. Bill Hasencamp:

   There's a long-term deficit beyond just a short-term drought that we have to come to grips with, there's just not enough water in the Colorado River to meet the demands that were designed in the 1922 Compact.

2. Chris Leyden:

   Even though it's a small market, when it's been that long of a drought, there's going to be a lot of excitement.

3. Geoff Ogilvy:

   They are just quality holes out there, it's an incredible bunch of holes on not an amazing piece of land, really, compared it to a lot of other great courses. Cool and interesting stuff uphill, downhill, Geoff Ogilvy have to move the ball both ways, awkward angles. It's just a great golf course, really. And it's immaculate this year. Nobody likes the drought in California, but it's good for a course like this to dry out a little bit.

4. Davjigbold Ariunbold:

   It's not a drought, it's a catastrophe.

5. Kyle Clem:

   So this thing started in the central tropical South Pacific, get some warming, the pattern continues for 40 years -- then you just have added heat being pumped into it from increasing greenhouse gases, that's what has allowed the Blob to reach such extreme rates of warming... which is why we're seeing a drought that is so unprecedented.