ハンラン
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. overflowing; flood; inundation; deluge
2. oversupply; plethora; abundance (esp. of something undesirable)
Pitch accent
ハ
ンラン
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
flood plain
flooding caused by overflowing of rivers (e.g. breaching levee banks)
flooding within the confines of a levee (i.e. caused by surface runoff, drainage failure, etc.)
Examples (7 in total)
This river looks like it's going to overflow.
The typhoon caused the river to flood.
The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.
That river floods every year.
The town was flooded with strange foreign languages.
The river flooded a large area.
This river sometimes overflows after the thaw.