Dammed

//dæmd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of dam form-of, participle, past

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arch damarrestartificial lakebackstopbamboo curtainbank

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"The taskmasters had established the right to flog their slaves; they had dammed up the slowly rising waters of rebellion, but these rose to their level at last, and overflowed, and slavery is no more."

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