"dam failure" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dam failures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: dam failure Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: damburst Translations (Translations): فَشَل السَّدّ (fašal as-sadd) [masculine] (Arabic), 潰壩 /溃坝 (kuìbà) (Chinese Mandarin), damdoorbraak [feminine] (Dutch), padon murtuminen (Finnish), rupture de barrage [feminine] (French), Dammbruch [masculine] (German), vỡ đập (Vietnamese), vỡ đê (Vietnamese)

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