All dammed synonyms
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D d noun dammed
- blocked — If something is blocked or blocked up, it is completely closed so that nothing can get through it.
- walled — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- boomed — to sail at full speed.
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- banked — A banked stretch of road is higher on one side than the other.
- ditched — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- gated — (of patterns in a foundry mold) linked by gates.
- leveed — an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river.
verb dammed
- stemmed — having a stem or a specified kind of stem (often used in combination): a long-stemmed rose.
- controlled — held in check; curbed: poorly controlled anger.
- inhibited — overly restrained.
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- hindered — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- impeded — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- restricted — confined; limited.
- clogged — to hinder or obstruct with thick or sticky matter; choke up: to clog a drain.
- barred — having bars or stripes
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- checked — Something that is checked has a pattern of small squares, usually of two colours.
- choked — If you say something in a choked voice or if your voice is choked with emotion, your voice does not have its full sound, because you are upset or frightened.
- closed — A closed group of people does not welcome new people or ideas from outside.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- repressed — subjected to, affected by, or characteristic of psychological repression: repressed emotional conflicts.
- restrained — characterized by restraint: The actor gave a restrained performance.
- suppressed — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.