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List of antonyms from "damaged" to antonyms from "dance around an issue"


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Definition of the day : « dammed »

  • 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