"megadrought" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "The most severe droughts also tend to be the most widespread and prolonged, but fortunately these megadroughts are far less frequent than the lesser droughts which are vastly in the majority […]",
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          "text": "It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.",
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        "(climatology) A drought lasting for decades or centuries."
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          "word": "megafire"
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          "word": "megaflood"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
          "word": "pitkä kuivuuskausi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
          "word": "megakuivuus"
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          "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
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          "word": "mégasécheresse"
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          "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
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          "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
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          "word": "megasseca"
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        "(climatology) A drought lasting for decades or centuries."
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      "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
      "word": "pitkä kuivuuskausi"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
      "word": "megakuivuus"
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      "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "a drought lasting for decades or centuries",
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