Crossword clues for damming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dam \Dam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dammed (d[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Damming.]
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To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
--Shak.A weight of earth that dams in the water.
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To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.
--Shak.To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dam English)
WordNet
See dam
Usage examples of "damming".
There is apparently some scheme for damming the valley and utilising the waters for a hydro-electric project.
Canadian court is going to grant you an injunction against the damming up of a useless bit of territory like this.
It is this which Hotspur bemoans, and he actually suggests damming the river in such a way as to make it flow east.
Instead of the fission plants the other Big15 used, Heather went in for hydropower on a colossal scale, damming two-thirds of the watercourses on the Sybraska continent where Rialto was situated.
Hoemei will be the next Prime Predictor and she is damming the mountain waters at both ends.
It had been the damming of the spring two thousand years ago which had bound Zeherah into this ruby, although what other dark enchantments had been used to trap her, she did not know.
Inside, Zander comes to rest among the fruits of a lifelong collec tor's passion -- Balinese dance masks, demonic Chinese marionettes, colored morris dancers -- without damming his flow of speech.
That creates an unfavorable pressure gradient, damming up the normal outflow so that it's stronger when it finally breaks through.
That creates an unfavorable pressure gradient, damming up the normal outflow so that it’.
He took up the suture needle, forced the selyn fields to an unstable neutrality, damming up the selyn in Hayashi's system, and began to repair the rent.