Definitions for Dam

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Dam dam

Spelling: [dam]

IPA: /dæm/

Dam is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Dam (adm).

Definitions for Dam

noun

1. a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
2. a body of water confined by a dam.
3. any barrier resembling a dam.
4. a female parent (used especially of four-footed domestic animals).
5. (Carl Peter) Henrik [kahrl pee-ter hen-rik;; Danish kahrl pey-tuh r hen-rik] /kɑrl ˈpi tɛr ˈhɛn rɪk;; Danish kɑrl ˈpeɪ tər ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1895–1976, Danish biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a dam; obstruct or confine with a dam.
2. to stop up; block up.

Origin of Dam

1275-1325; Middle English Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, dam; akin to Old English for-demman to stop up, block

Examples for Dam

He said give you his Regards and tell you you was a dam lukky Man.

I wish Kenelm or some other dam' fool was here instead of me.

The women they shot as readily as they would the dam of the wolf or the bear.

A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.

When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.

The Arizona senator described a provision inserted into the debt deal appropriating $2 billion for a Kentucky dam as "disgusting."

Then they tore out the dam, rinsed the screen and spread it over a rock to dry.

For example, he added, many highly valuable Western hostages are held in an ISIS prison beneath a dam near Raqqa.

As in a trance, he saw more than the dam; he saw what it symbolized.

The ceremony at the Nieuwe Kerk on dam Square should be a model of stately splendor.