dam failure

English

Noun

dam failure (countable and uncountable, plural dam failures)

1. The situation where water breaks through a dam that is supposed to hold it back.

   Synonym: damburst

   Hypernym: breach

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: فَشَل السَّدّ m (fašal as-sadd)
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  Mandarin: 潰壩／溃坝 (zh) (kuìbà)

• Dutch: damdoorbraak f
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• Finnish: padon murtuminen
• French: rupture de barrage f
• German: Dammbruch (de) m
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• Vietnamese: vỡ đập, vỡ đê