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Synonyms for dam
dæmdam
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Princeton's WordNet
dam, dike, dykenoun
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam, dkmnoun
a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
damverb
female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
dam, dam upverb
obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
"dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"
Synonyms:
dam up
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damnoun
Synonyms:
mother (of a beast), female parent
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#345 | board | |
#6578 | dam | |
#14059 | mah | |
#16461 | bridging | |
#16685 | dams | |
#17337 | checkpoint | |
#19461 | weir | |
#19733 | dyke | |
#26805 | blockade | |
#30695 | levee | |
#34340 | barrage | |
#36817 | embankment | |
#39562 | dike | |
#43279 | barricade | |
#52375 | breakwater | |
#56633 | daffy | |
#56693 | roadblock | |
#84329 | dwa | |
#102430 | presa | |
#119490 | damming | |
#192072 | dkm |
How to use dam in a sentence?
Environment Secretary Germano Vieira:
The breach of the embankment is going to happen, what we don't know is whether that breach will affect the dam.
The dam must be repaired because it could cause a civilian disaster, we will fix the dam and the workers will be defended by our troops, who are already present in Iraq.
No, we were not going to blow anything up, the Nimbus Dam stuff, that was her idea. That was Anna's idea.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency:
Those in this area should evacuate and seek higher ground! after inspection, the County Engineer believe failure of the dam is imminent.
The ice floats down river until it bunches up in what we call an ice-jam, like a dam, causing flooding, all that backed-up water is eventually going downstream.
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