Crossword-Solution: DROUGHT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drought | n. | Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. |
| Drought | n. | Thirst; want of drink. |
| Drought | n. | Scarcity; lack. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with DROUGHT (5)
Albania possesses considerable mineral resources and, until 1990, was largely self-sufficient in food; several years of drought have hindered agricultural development.
Its economy is burdened by the ravages of civil war, conflict with Libya, drought, and food shortages.
Nothing flourished in the cold, moist, pitiless atmosphere, drifting with the brackish scud of sea-breezes, except the moss along the joints of the shingle-roof, and the great bunch of weeds, that had lately been suffering from drought, in the angle between the two front gables.
Front-de-Bœuf took a long drought of wine, and then addressed his prisoners;—for the manner in which Wamba drew the cap over his face, the change of dress, the gloomy and broken light, and the Baron’s imperfect acquaintance with the features of Cedric, (who avoided his Norman neighbours, and seldom stirred beyond his own domains,) prevented him from discovering that the most important of his captives had made his escape.
And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot.
Quotes with DROUGHT (3)
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.
This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1957–2018).