"flood" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

flood sustantivo

sustantivo + flood
Kolokacji: 19
spring flood • river flood • Johnstown Flood • flood of refugees • flood of tears • ...
flood + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 46
flood plain • flood water • flood control • flood damage • flood victim • ...
flood + verbo
Kolokacji: 48
flood destroys • flood causes • flood affects • flood comes • flood occurs • flood damages • ...
verbo + flood
Kolokacji: 10
cause floods • prevent floods • experience floods • control floods • suffer floods • ...
adjetivo + flood
Kolokacji: 55
great flood • major flood • devastating flood • sudden flood • severe flood • ...
(6) annual, yearly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) veritable, regular
Kolokacji: 2
1. veritable flood = istna powódź veritable flood
2. regular flood = regularna powódź regular flood
  • Because of oscillating water levels and regular floods, many settlements are built on stilts (Palafitas).
  • The town experiences regular floods usually in the month of May.
  • Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale of less than six hours.
  • Rather, they stand in solidarity with one another during the regular floods of the Drina.
  • The town is subject to regular floods and is protected by a levee bank.
  • But when the river flowed naturally, regular floods carried silt from the heartland into the marshes, maintaining their elevation.
  • Industrial development of the 19th century was slow, due to the regular floods.
  • No doubt they were expected to wash away with the regular seasonal floods, for they could certainly be "rebuilt"-if that wasn't too grand a term-easily enough.
  • The small River Chelt flows under and through the town and is subject to regular floods.
  • Only regular floods of muddy water can replenish the sediment and keep the landscape above water.
(9) constant, endless
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + flood
Kolokacji: 15
during floods • from floods • to floods • by floods • after the flood • ...

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