大洪水 – vocab dash

大だい洪こう水ずい

Meanings

Noun

1. heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge

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

Kanji used

Pitch accent

だいこうずい

Composed of

large; big; great; huge; vast; major; important; serious; severe; prominent; …

Prefix

flood; flooding

Noun

Examples4

家いえが数すう軒けんその大だい洪こう水ずいで流ながされた。

Several houses were carried away by the great flood.

大だい洪こう水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.

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たの者ものは大だい洪こう水ずいに備そなえた。

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

大だい洪こう水ずいで現げん地ちの交こう通つう網もうが麻ま痺ひした。

The massive flood paralyzed the local transportation network.