Definitions of dam
n. - A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
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n. - A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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n. - 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.
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n. - A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
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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.
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v. t. - To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
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The word "dam" uses 3 letters: A D M.
Direct anagrams of dam:
mad
Words formed by adding one letter before or after dam (in bold), or to adm in any order:
e - dame made mead i - amid maid n - damn p - damp r - dram s - dams mads u - duma maud
Shorter words found within dam:
ad am ma
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