Illustration: After heavy rain, water pushes through the ground-floor doorway of a Japanese neighborhood shop and spreads across the interior floor. The water surrounds the legs of the counter and lifts an empty plastic basket slightly off the tiles.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

浸しん水すい

shinsui

to flood, to take on water

Example sentences

  1. そのボートは浸水しんすいし始はじめてまもなく沈しずんだ。

    The boat began to take in water and soon sank.

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  2. さらに、大阪市内おおさかしないでは、地割じわれから泥水どろみずを噴ふき出だし、家屋かおくが浸水しんすいした。

    In Osaka City, cracks in the ground spewed mud water and flooded houses.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 巨椋池は、その周辺の洪水調整機能を引き受けたため、洪水時には湖岸約数千haが長期に渡り浸水した。

    Since Ogura-ike Pond assumed flood control function in the vicinity, approximately several thousand hectares of lakefront was flooded over a long period during a flood.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 浸水

  • 浸immersed; soakOnシンKunひたす・ひたる・つかる
  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-

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