例句 |
damnoun a bank of earth constructed to control waterthe river backed up behind the dam until it formed a new lake dike, embankment, head, levee breakwater, jetty, seawallbreastwork, bulwark, earthwork, rampartcanal, channel, ditch, gutter, troughlockbarricade, barrier, blockfloodgate, sluicebarrage, milldam, stank(British), weir damverbto prevent passage through by filling with somethingice floes were damming the river block, choke, clog, clot, congest, gum (up), jam, obstruct, occlude, plug (up), stop (up), stuff bung, cork, spile, stopper, stopplefill, gridlock, packfur, siltflood, glut, inundate, overwhelm, swamp clear, free, open (up), unblock, unclog, unplug, unstop excavate, hollow (out), scoop (out)empty, lighten to close up so that no empty spaces remaindam up the pipes block, bung, fill, pack, plug, stop, stuff choke, clog, close (off), clot, congest, jam, obstruct, occludecaulk, chink, sealrepack, restuff excavate, hollow (out), scoop (out), shovel in the 13th century |