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1 drought
------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] drought[English Plural] droughts[Swahili Word] ukavu[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 14[Related Words] kavu------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] drought[English Plural] droughts[Swahili Word] ukame[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 14[Related Words] kame------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] drought[English Plural] droughts[Swahili Word] kiu[Swahili Plural] kiu[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Related Words] kwiu------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] drought[English Plural] droughts[Swahili Word] uyabisi[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 14------------------------------------------------------------ -
2 facilitate
[English Word] facilitate[Swahili Word] -sahalisha[Part of Speech] verb[English Example] the rain facilitated the drought[Swahili Example] Mvua ilisahalisha ukamwe------------------------------------------------------------ -
3 wane
[English Word] on the wane[Swahili Word] pungufu[Part of Speech] adjective[Derived Word] punga V[English Example] Nowadays there is a wane of food because of the drought[Swahili Example] Siku hizi kuna upungufu wa chakula kwa sababu ya ukame------------------------------------------------------------
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Drought — (drout), n. [OE. droght, drougth, dru[yogh][eth], AS. druga[eth], from drugian to dry. See {Dry}, and cf. {Drouth}, which shows the original final sound.] 1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
drought|y — «DROW tee», adjective, drought|i|er, drought|i|est. 1. showing or suffering from drought: »a droughty, withered crop. 2. lacking moisture; dry … Useful english dictionary
drought — O.E. drugað, drugoð drought, dryness, desert, from P.Gmc. *drugothaz, from Germanic root *dreug dry (cf high/height) with ith, Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns from adjectives (see TH (Cf. th)). Drouth was a M.E. variant continued in… … Etymology dictionary
drought — drought; drought·i·ness; … English syllables
drought — index paucity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
drought — [draut] n [U and C] [: Old English; Origin: drugath; related to dry] a long period of dry weather when there is not enough water for plants and animals to live … Dictionary of contemporary English
drought — [ draut ] noun count or uncount a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
drought — [n] dryness; shortage of supply aridity, dearth, deficiency, dehydration, desiccation, dry spell, insufficiency, lack, need, parchedness, rainlessness, scarcity, want; concepts 607,646 Ant. monsoon, wetness … New thesaurus
drought — ► NOUN ▪ a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water. ORIGIN Old English, «dryness» … English terms dictionary
drought — [drout] n. [ME < OE drugoth, dryness < drugian, to dry up; akin to dryge, DRY] 1. a prolonged period of dry weather; lack of rain 2. a prolonged or serious shortage or deficiency 3. Archaic thirst droughty adj. droughtier, droughtiest … English World dictionary
Drought — For other uses, see Drought (disambiguation). Fields outside Benambra, Victoria, Australia suffering from drought conditions. A drought (or drouth [archaic]) is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water… … Wikipedia