斷水 [断－]

Jyutping dyun6 seoi2
Pinyin duàn shuǐ

Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb, of a river
    to dry up
  2. verb
    to cut off the water supply; (of water supply) to be cut off; to have a water outage
    (syn.) 供水
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    业主想收返啲单位卖俾发展商，所以开始断电、断水，逼迁住户。
    業主想收返啲單位賣俾發展商，所以開始斷電、斷水，逼遷住户。
    jip6 zyu2 soeng2 sau1 faan1 di1 daan1 wai2 maai6 bei2 faat3 zin2 soeng1, so2 ji5 hoi1 ci2 tyun5 din6, tyun5 seoi2, bik1 cin1 zyu6 wu6.
    • The owner wants to takes the flats back and sell them to the developer, so he stopped providing electricity and water, in order to force the tenants to leave.