Damming is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DAMMING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DAM, to build an embankment to retain water
• build a dam across (a river or lake)
• hold back or obstruct (something)
RESIDUAL:
• decametre(s).
NOUN:
• a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply
• a barrier of branches in a stream, constructed by a beaver to provide a deep pool and a lodge.
• an artificial pond or reservoir where rain or spring water is collected for storage
• a rubber sheet used to keep saliva from the teeth during dental operations, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.
• the female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to build a barrier to obstruct the flow of water
• present participle of dam

Words related to DAMMING

dam6 dammed12 dams7

Words that contain DAMMING

undamming15 goddamming18

How to use DAMMING in a sentence

• At every valley mouth the beating of the waves tends all the year round to throw up a bank of sand and shingle, damming the land-water back to form a lagoon.
• Abeshu, the next Babylonian king, endeavoured to shatter the cause of the Sealanders, and made it possible for himself to strike at them by damming up the Tigris canal.
• The greater part of the river communication might be rendered passable by Durham boats, merely by damming up the rivers.
• A few miles before reaching Subiaco we skirt a lake, probably one of the Simbrivii Lacus which Nero is believed to have made by damming up the Anio.
• Above, barriers of rocks athwart the stream stretched like a weir across the river, damming the deep still water behind it.
• The knoll on which it stood was converted almost into an island by the damming up of an adjacent brook, and the whole enclosed area amounted to 30 acres.
• That red ran high up the hill of their refuge, damming back the little river, which had begun to spread into a brick-coloured lake.
• It was fine to wallow, damming the span of escaping water with my fevered head.
• During the siege the Boers conceived the idea of flooding the Ladysmith plain and the town by damming the Klip River below Intombi Camp.

Similar words containing DAMM without suffix ing

damme10 dammar11 dammed12 dammer11 dammit11 dammars12 dammers12 undammed14 goddammed17 goddammit16 landamman14 undamming15 goddamming18 landammann15 landammans15 landammanns16

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