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Droughts
- noun - a prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"
- a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"
Droughty
- - Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.
Drowning
- verb - be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
- cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
- get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
- kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
Drowsier
- adjective - half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
- showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation"
Drowsily
- adverb - in a drowsy manner; "`Time to get up,' she said drowsily"
Drowsing
- verb - be on the verge of sleeping; "The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class"
- half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
Drubbing
- verb - a sound defeat
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Drudgery
- noun - hard monotonous routine work
Drudging
- verb - doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"