大雨使河水泛滥。

The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 大雨 dàyǔ heavy rain

classifier: 場
2 使 shǐ
  1. to make
  2. to cause
  3. to enable
  4. to use
  5. to employ
  6. to send
  7. to instruct sb to do sth
  8. envoy
  9. messenger
3 河水 héshuǐ river water
=4 泛滥 fànlàn
  1. to overflow; to inundate; to flood
  2. (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
=4 泛滥 fànlàn variant of 氾濫 fànlàn