Synonyms for dammed
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dam |
| Phonetic Transcription : dæm |
Top 10 synonyms for dammed Other synonyms for the word dammed
Définition of dammed
Origin :- late 15c., from dam (n.1). Related: Dammed; damming.
- verb hold back; block
- 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
Antonyms for dammed
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