Synonym: dam up, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dike, dkm, dyke. Similar words: damn, damage, damping, fundamental. Meaning: [dæm] 
n. 1. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea 2. a metric unit of length equal to ten meters 3. female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock. v. obstruct with, or as if with, a dam.
n. 1. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea 2. a metric unit of length equal to ten meters 3. female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock. v. obstruct with, or as if with, a dam. 
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61. The contract also specified a low dam.
62. A team of three men operate the dam.
63. The dam defied description; it defied belief.
64. The dam was reinforced with 20,000 sandbags.
65. The dam broke three minutes before midnight.
66. The problem with a high dam, however, was Congress.
67. So you threw up on their new dam.
68. His dismembered body was dumped near Hoover Dam.
69. A very, very large dam.
70. The dam represents man's triumph over nature.
71. The dam has become something of a white elephant.
72. Building the dam will be a major undertaking.
73. A high dam would end their migration, irrevocably.
74. A dam had saved the lake and its fish.
75. The dam burst after heavy rains.
76. Water was pouring out of the release gates on the dam.
77. With construction of the dam, the loss of nutrient rich sediment led to the collapse of sardine fishing in the delta.
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78. Mulholland, of course, knew this, but still refused to build the dam at Long Valley.
79. It emerges from the base of the massive Navajo Dam at constant temperatures and even flows.
80. With construction at a standstill, the dam stood half-complete across the buck River in Columbia, Tennessee.
81. The dam burst in the middle of one of the world's most beautiful landscapes.
82. First, the anatomy of an ice dam; how it happens and why.
83. This created a dramatic scene, and that may have contributed to the notion that the dam was broken.
84. Officials stated that building a dam for irrigation purposes was hopelessly impractical.
85. Like a spider web or a caddis house, a beaver dam is among the true wonders of the world.
86. At the lodge gates turn right over the reservoir dam then walk up through Blackstone Bank Wood.
87. These bare poles are all that remains of the jungle that the lake drowned as the waters rose behind the dam.
88. This dam is going to displace 25,000 Kurds in a war region.
89. He made a gesture with his handkerchief as if it were water pouring over a dam.
90. At some later date, a slight glacial retreat would weaken the dam wall and its subsequent collapse would prove catastrophic.