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dam - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'dam' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dam [ n.]
- 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.
2 . Dam [ v. t.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'dam' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . dam [ v]
Meaning (1):
- obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
Example in sentence:
  • dam the gorges of the Yangtse River