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damsnounpl. of dam a bank of earth constructed to control waterthe river backed up behind the dam until it formed a new lake dikes, embankments, heads, levees breakwaters, jetties, seawallsbreastworks, bulwarks, earthworks, rampartscanals, channels, ditches, gutters, troughslocksbarricades, barriers, blocksfloodgates, sluicesbarrages, milldams, stanks(British), weirs to prevent passage through by filling with somethingice floes were damming the river blocks, chokes, clogs, clots, congests, gums (up), jams, obstructs, occludes, plugs (up), stops (up), stuffs bungs, corks, spiles, stoppers, stopplesfills, gridlocks, packsfurs, siltsfloods, gluts, inundates, overwhelms, swamps clears, frees, opens (up), unblocks, unclogs, unplugs, unstops excavates, hollows (out), scoops (out)empties, lightens to close up so that no empty spaces remaindam up the pipes blocks, bungs, fills, packs, plugs, stops, stuffs chokes, clogs, closes (off), clots, congests, jams, obstructs, occludescaulks(or calks), chinks, sealsrepacks, restuffs excavates, hollows (out), scoops (out), shovels |