Dam is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DAM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to build an embankment to retain water
• build a dam across (a river or lake)
• hold back or obstruct (something)
• To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
• To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
• obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
• build a dam across (a river)
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.
• barrier built across a river to create a lake
• A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
• A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
• A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
• A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
• a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
• a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
• female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to build a barrier to obstruct the flow of water

Words related to DAM

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Words that contain DAM

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How to use DAM in a sentence

• The dam thundered that night, the wind and the water being high.
• Half an hour of forest silence followed, that was only interrupted by the tumbling of the waters over the natural dam.
• In less than ten minutes from the time the prisoner had escaped, the fugitives reached the level of the rock of the water-fall, or that of the plain of the Dam.
• Woods, who understood such matters, and being duly executed, the Beaver Dam property was vested in fee in the child.
• It was a moment of pain and pleasure, strangely mingled, when Willoughby and Maud reached the rocks, and got a first view of the ancient Beaver Dam.
• They saw Reed, accompanied by a thick-set man whom some recognised as the sheriff of the county, approach the edge of the dam.
• Navigation on that mill pond was performed with long poles, but, unfortunately, we could not lift the poles, and we soon saw we were drifting toward the dam.
• Full many a weary hour have I spent, hidden in the brush, watching a nearby beaver dam in the hope of getting a shot, but always without avail.
• And without cessation, he threw handfuls of sand into the Bhagirathi, and began to construct the dam attracting the notice of the sage.
• You build the one dam which can keep back your retribution.
• In that sea you could no more manoeuvre by your engines alone than you could dam Niagara with a handful of sand.
• Near the mouth of this creek the beaver had made a dam across so as to form a large pond, in which they built their houses.
• The brethren built a dam in a creek on Saturday where they were to baptize on Sunday, but during the night a mob tore the dam away.
• Of course the first thing to do was to build a dam across the Laughing Brook to make the pond he so much needed.
• Oh, Paddy the Beaver had no time for idle gossip, you may be sure! So he kept right on building his dam.
• He was digging in front of the dam now, and the mud and grass he dug up he stuffed in between the ends of the sticks and patted down with his hands.
• After Builder explained what had happened, there were angry mutterings to the effect that Thor was displeased with the dam and therefore had taken lives.
• The dam ought to raise the lake level about five or six feet, the engineers say.
• This flood check, at Dundee dam was observed in 1902, but it could not be shown to arise from the frequently mentioned phenomena at the mouth of Pompton River.
• Allied with this unit of the great dam was a lesser dam operating a mill plant on the other Fork.
• The road running up and down the valley ascended from this plateau to a sufficient elevation to surmount the permanent water level above the upper dam.
• A section of the side of the great U, running clear back to a seam which had formed in the dam face, slowly broke out and went down.
• With watch in hand, Dickens strode on over the Mill Dam toward Newton Centre.
• Dam knelt and prayed beside her, then blessed her, and she feebly responded to his words.
• I ran down to the spot as fast as I could, for I expected he would land on the opposite shore, at the corner of the dam.
• As we have said, the plan for the San Diego work was to build a dam across the canon, and keep the waters from flowing away.
• As we neared this dam the river became deeper and deeper, until finally we could no longer reach bottom with the poles, and could not properly steer the boat.

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