DAM Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈdam

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as in levee

a bank of earth constructed to control water the river backed up behind the dam until it formed a new lake

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verb

as in to block

to prevent passage through by filling with something ice floes were damming the river

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as in to fill

to close up so that no empty spaces remain dam up the pipes

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Noun

Improvements to the dam also follow the death of 14-year-old Andre Edwards Jr. on Memorial Day. —

Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2024 In some areas, irrigation for agriculture or the construction of dams have reduced water flows in rivers and choked off fish populations. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024

Verb

It was opened in 1853 by George Silverthorn, who ran one of the region’s first ferries on the Pit River, nearly a century before the federal government dammed the Sacramento River to create Shasta Lake. —

Elise Fisher, Sacramento Bee, 9 July 2024 Hydrilla threatens to dam shallow tributaries such as the Mattabesset in Middletown, turning them into giant mosquito breeding grounds. —

Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for dam

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