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Meanings of barrage lake in English

Russian
запрудное озеро
Portuguese
reservatório
Spanish
represa
Catalan
embassament
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Artificial lake impounded using a dam or lock to store water.

        запрудное озеро
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        Examples for "impoundment"
        Examples for "impoundment"
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        The cab dropped them at the impoundment lot.
        True blue
        2
        The impoundment has created unease in Japan's government, which warns that the action could affect Japanese businesses in China.
        Reuters
        3
        A recent operation from the traffic department handed out a wave of fines and impoundment notices to taxi operators in Dunoon.
        The South African
        4
        On the land where the dragline first trod, there's a slurry impoundment rather than the wildlife habitat promised by executives in the original permit.
        Reuters
        5
        The impoundment has set off alarm bells in Japan and the country's top government spokesman warned this week it may damage Japanese business in China.
        Reuters
        1
        Turkey could use the spring flooding season to fill the dam reservoir, for example.
        Reuters
        2
        The dam reservoir would flood the deregistered conservation land.
        Radio NZ
        3
        The protected conservation area sits in the middle of where the dam reservoir would go once the dam was built.
        Radio NZ
        4
        But the power company moved the black stone idol on the night of 16 June to save it from the swollen dam reservoir.
        The Guardian
        5
        Wide areas of the rice-producing Luzon provinces were also flooded after water overflowed from a dam reservoir in Bulacan, just north of Manila, he added.
        Reuters
        1
        The Tigris pours into the Mosul Dam Lake.
        Reuters
        2
        A frozen dammed lake is 10% less likely to be crossed than a natural lake.
        The Guardian
        3
        Basically a dammed lake is like a giant battery, storing water to use when electricity is needed.
        Radio NZ
        4
        The overflow of the glacier dammed lakes at the head of the dale came down Newton Dale and poured into Lake Pickering.
        The Evolution of an English Town
        5
        This year the rains failed, too, and a new Turkish dam threatens to reduce flows from the Tigris River into the Mosul Dam Lake.
        Reuters