OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8846

drought

/dɹaʊt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
seca • sequía
A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
His village had faced a drought twice.
The weather looked like drought―a thoroughly wicked drought; if the rain did not come before long, their crops would be burnt up.
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