Drought

Noun

 * 1) A period of below average rain fall, longer and more severe than a dry spell
 * 2)  A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.

Adjectives for Drought
devilish; burning; severe; prolonged; unparalleled; unprecedented; insatiate; scorching; extensive; continued; stagnant; extreme.

Verbs for Drought
endure—; expose to—; flee—; prepare for —; prevent—; relieve—; subject to—; succumb to—; suffer from—; —burns; —continues; —descends; —destroys; —dries; — grips; —parches; —ravages; —ruins; — scorches; —sears.

Thesaurus
absence, appetite, aridity, aridness, beggary, canine appetite, corkiness, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, dryness, emptiness, empty stomach, famine, hollow hunger, hunger, hungriness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, juicelessness, lack, need, omission, polydipsia, relish, saplessness, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, stomach, sweet tooth, tapeworm, taste, thirst, thirstiness, torment of Tantalus, want, wantage, waterlessness, watertight integrity, watertightness

Alternative forms

 * drouth

Etymology
drugaþ:

Translations

 * Arabic: جفاف
 * Basque: lehorte
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: sequera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 乾旱, 干旱
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Dürre, Trockenzeit
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þurrkar
 * Italian: siccità


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: nixfa
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: خشک‌سالی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, засушливость, сушь
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: torka
 * Turkish: kuraklık
 * Vietnamese: hạn hán
 * Volapük: lesig
 * !Xóõ: ǁqáa