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Meanings of dammed in English

Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

      Usage of dammed in English
      1
      Ichthyofauna of a mountain stream dammed by beaver Archives of Polish Fisheries.
      The Guardian
      2
      Between the ridges flowed the sluggish Antietam, dammed up for milling purposes.
      Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals / As Seen From the Ranks Durin...
      3
      The little Guadelle river, a tributary of the Aliso, was completely dammed.
      The Isle of Unrest
      4
      The pain of these recollections dammed the torrent of Mr. Tubbs's speech.
      Spanish Doubloons
      5
      A mountain stream had been dammed so as to make an island.
      Driven Back to Eden
      6
      Her resentment, dammed so long for want of opportunity, carried her away.
      The Indiscretion of the Duchess / Being a Story Concerning Two L...
      7
      It's partly natural and it's partly dammed, but it's our swimming hole.
      The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
      8
      The dammed streams made a chain of lakes set in the green meadows.
      Tales Of Hearsay
      9
      In 2006, it dammed part of this without consulting either Pakistan or India.
      News.com.au
      10
      The great flood of the sky dammed off by the hills.
      Mary Olivier: a Life
      11
      Here and there the streams were dammed by the industrious beaver.
      Indian Boyhood
      12
      Your finger will actually tremble with the dammed-up energy of the repressed impulse.
      Initiative Psychic Energy / Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelv...
      13
      The traffic's a dammed-up river which threatens to overflow its banks.
      Lost in translation
      14
      Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake.
      Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
      15
      A long, serpentine pool, as if they'd dammed up a stream.
      Pinball, 1973
      16
      I then dammed the stream, and climbed down its empty bed.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
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