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.
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91. He decided to withdraw from the Aswan Dam project, but he did not make the decision public.
92. Environmentalists fear that, if completed, the hydro-electric dam will severely disrupt the Danube ecosystem.
93. Nearly three years after work had begun, the dam was still a figment of the imagination.
94. The dam burst, swamping the valley and hundreds of homes.
95. The only conceivable justification for a dam on the Yellowstone was flood control.
96. Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam.
97. The maintenance of the dam requires the constant attention of the owners.
98. Fishing spots below the dam should return to normal soon after the experiment ends in early April.
99. If the dam broke, the village would be in big big trouble.
100. The water seeping around the abutment of the Saint Francis Dam was brown.
101. When I was younger I used to have fantasies about saving the house by building a dam.
102. The train struck a dam, which burst, flooding a small town.
103. The most persistent rumor last week was that the Larimore Dam had broken.
104. The dam project has reached the point of no return.
105. The West is a dam builder's nirvana, full of deep, narrow canyons.
106. We are still waiting for promises given to us in 1981 over the Alta dam to be honoured.
107. But it made no better sense, Johnson quickly added, for the Corps to build the dam instead.
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108. The long-range goal of the project is to reintroduce the razorback sucker into the river just above Imperial Dam.
109. Each kit comprises a cistern dam and a ball arm extension. 1 Lift off the cistern lid.
110. The disruption in the canyon began with completion of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963.
111. Wintery conditions disappeared and summer-like spells brought hatches of black gnat and sedge particularly towards the dam end of the reservoir.
112. On houses with warm roofs, the melting occurs from the bottom up, creating the ice dam.
113. Its largest dam is San Luis in central California; its most magnificent dam is Hoover.
114. No dam after Hoover has ever quite matched its grace and glorious detail.
115. The reservoir backed up behind the dam could be vulnerable to nuclear attack, opponents say.
116. The Maine dam is a dinosaur which should be removed.
117. Thousands of tons of earth were moved to build the dam.
118. They argued that a dam might actually increase the risk of flooding.
119. If there is heavy rain, the spillways must be enlarged to allow the floodwater to escape before the dam bursts.
120. Throughout much of the East, it is hard to find a decent spot for a dam.