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{
"term": "drought",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a long period of time when there is little or no rain",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Farmers are facing ruin after two years of severe drought."
},
{
"text": "one of the worst droughts on record"
},
{
"text": "The country’s entire grain harvest has been hit by drought."
},
{
"text": "England has had several summer droughts in recent years."
},
{
"text": "Large areas of the country are affected by severe drought."
},
{
"text": "Some of the newer plants in the garden died during the drought."
},
{
"text": "plants that can withstand drought"
},
{
"text": "Crop failures were caused by drought and a lack of fertilizer."
}
],
"topics": ["Weather", "The environment"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["devastating", "extreme", "severe"],
"verb + drought": ["have", "cause", "break"],
"drought + verb": ["affect something"],
"drought + noun": ["conditions", "resistance", "tolerance"],
"preposition": ["during a/the drought", "in a/the drought"],
"phrases": ["in times of drought", "months, years, etc. of drought"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a long period of time when there is a lack of something that is needed or wanted",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The team is desperate to end a ten-game **goal drought**."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊt/",
"audio": "dr/drought/drought__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊt/",
"audio": "dr/drought/drought__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Old English drūgath ‘dryness’, of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte; related to dry."
}