Converse of object

• withstand: Genes from desert plants can be used to produce crops that withstand drought.

• recur: This vast region is the poorest in Brazil and suffers from severe and recurring drought.

• tolerate: In dry areas, choose plants that can tolerate drought - such plants often have gray or silver foliage.

• worsen: The climate is changing, bringing with it threats of rising sea levels and worsening droughts and floods.

• survive: It is often abundant on well-drained or even thin soils due to the ability to survive summer drought.

• suffer: Historically, North Darfur and parts of West and South Darfur have suffered recurrent droughts.

Adjective modifier

• prolonged: There are, for example, concerns that beach trees may not survive extreme or prolonged droughts.

• severe: Two severe droughts have left people with very little food - everyone is hungry.

• recurrent: Historically, North Darfur and parts of West and South Darfur have suffered recurrent droughts.

• devastating: Here she reports back on the country's devastating drought.

• crippling: But years of crippling drought, poor wheat yields and a lack of equipment, meant that their incomes were going down and down.

• three-year: Afghanistan is in the grip of a three-year drought, the worst in living memory.

Modifies a noun

• minima: Nonetheless overall stocks remain within 4 % of the late summer average and well above drought minima in almost all regions.

• tolerance: Other groups of researchers around the world are pursuing the same drought tolerance goal.

• resistant: Drought resistant plants can be grown by budding young gardeners.

• mitigation: The School of Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hosts this site on drought mitigation.

• stress: Very little is known of how rainforest evaporation responds to drought stress.

• severity: More revealing in terms of drought severity are the accumulated runoff totals since October 2004.

Noun used with modifier

• summer: It is often abundant on well-drained or even thin soils due to the ability to survive summer drought.

• goal: Will he break his World Cup goal drought this weekend?