Definition/Meaning of dam

• English - Noun: dam (plural dams) A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, general ly for purpose s such as retain ing or divert ing some of the water or retard ing the release of accumulate d water to avoid abrupt flood ing. A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country. 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad: Nothing…
• English - Verb: dam (third-person singular simple present dams, present participle damming, simple past and past participle dammed) (transitive) To block the flow of water . 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4: Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith…
• English - Interjection: dam (historical, pronunciation spelling, slang) Damn .
• English - Adjective: dam (not comparable) (historical, not comparable, pronunciation spelling, slang) Damn . 2020, Jacie Rowe III, White Lies, Black Truth, The Lost Light, page 196: Do not get too caught up in individual campism. The Most-High sent your spirits back on earth to fix yourselves, come together and wake up our people, so do your dam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you.
• English - Anagrams: adm . AMD , DMA , mad , MAD