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

2. drought, drouthnoun

   a prolonged shortage

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

   Synonyms:
   drouth

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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. Gregory Asner:

   If we have recurring drought and it comes back strong after the El Nino, we predict we are going to have a lot more tree mortality, if drought persists and we lose forest, it will be replaced with something. Typically when forests get too dry and they die off, usually shrub lands and grasslands do the replacing.

2. Daniel Swain:

   Everything from the Rocky Mountain continental divide westward, including Colorado, Utah, Sierra Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico have fire conditions that look really, potentially explosive. The drought is even worse in those places than in Southern California, it looks pretty likely that it will be a severe fire season across most of West Linn.

3. Don Willhite:

   The thing that differentiates it (drought) from all other natural hazards is the fact that it covers such a wide swath or spatial extent, floods are much more localized. (Drought) goes on for so long. The impacts accumulate year to year.

4. Justin Mankin:

   The drought is pretty baked in, my expectation is fully that the American West is going to be in a drought through the rest of this year, at the very least. To recover from Lake Powell, we're talking about multiple seasons of above-average precipitation.

5. Dave Samuhel:

   Unfortunately, in a nutshell, it looks like it’s going to be another busy season, we’re seeing a lot of drought. Almost half of the country is experiencing drought, and the bulk of that is to the West.