All dam synonyms
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D d verb dam
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- retard β to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- slow β moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- suppress β to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- brake β Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
- choke β When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- barricade β A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- impede β to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- hold back β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- stem β science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, considered as a group of academic or career fields (often used attributively): degree programs in STEM disciplines; teaching STEM in high school.
- control β Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- blockade β A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- hold in β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- stop up β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
noun dam
- barrier β A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- wall β any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- boom β If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
- weir β a small dam in a river or stream.
- barrage β A barrage is continuous firing on an area with large guns and tanks.
- obstruction β something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- bank β A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
- dike β a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- ditch β a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- gate β Archaic. a path; way.
- levee β (in Great Britain) a public court assembly, held in the early afternoon, at which men only are received.
- grade β a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- hindrance β an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- milldam β a dam built in a stream to furnish a head of water for turning a mill wheel.
- millpond β a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.