Antonyms for dammed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dam

Phonetic Transcription : dæm

Definition of dammed

Origin : late 15c., from dam (n.1). Related: Dammed; damming.

verb hold back; block

Example sentences :

In the main working; but the water is dammed up; we can never pass.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

But democracy is the rising tide; it may be dammed or delayed, but cannot be stopped.
Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy

The dammed streams made a chain of lakes set in the green meadows.
Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad

As a final measure they dammed up the springs and drained the lake.
Extract from : « The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters » by Charles Henry Lerrigo

It made her mad and she say, "I'll be dammed if I don't go."
Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various

This stream was dammed, so that the Mormon converts might be baptized by immersion.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 » by Various

That will teach you to wake us up at night with your peal of a dammed soul.
Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo

He ought to be dammed—or leveed, I should more properly say.
Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

She was full of maternal love, dammed up by distance and absence.
Extract from : « Double Harness » by Anthony Hope

Alas, alas, and I thought myself a torrent that could never be dammed!
Extract from : « Yonder » by Emily Hilda Young

Synonyms for dammed

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