だいこうずい – Vocabulary details

だいこうずい

Noun

1. heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge

2. great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth

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large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university

flood; flooding

家いえが数すう軒けんそのだいこうずいで流ながされた。

Several houses were carried away by the great flood.

だいこうずいがその地ち域いきの交こう通つう網もうを麻ま痺ひさせた。

A massive flood paralyzed the local transportation network.

世せ界かい神しん話わの中なかでも、だいこうずいの話はなしはとても有ゆう名めいだ。

The story of a great flood is very common in world mythology.

一いち部ぶの住じゅう民みんが様よう子す見みの態たい度どを取とる一いっ方ぽうで他ほかの者ものはだいこうずいに備そなえた。

Some residents took a wait-and-see attitude while others prepared for heavy flooding.

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