さいがい
Meanings
Noun
1. 台風、洪水、地震、噴火、伝染病などによる災い。
Kanji used
natural disaster
harm
Pitch accent
いがい
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Used in vocabulary (27 in total)
① 異常な自然現象によって発生する社会的または経済的な災害。地震、台風、火山の噴火など。
catastrophe-level; catastrophical
Examples (9 in total)
Typhoons bring about damage every year.
Last year, we had frequent disasters.
They believed the jewel would bring disaster.
We must always be prepared for disasters.
Such a disaster won't come again in my time.
After the disaster, there was scarcely any water left on the island.
Seldom have human beings experienced such a disaster.
The flood was the greatest disaster they had ever had.
The earthquake which caused the disaster occurred in 1995.