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Meanings of dammed in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hated"
Examples for "hated"
1
I tried TV3's new news hour on Ireland AM but hated it.
2
It didn't occur to him to feed the thing; he hated animals.
3
In reality, he hated alcohol in any form during the earlier hours.
4
For a good year, I hated everything I recorded, vocally at least.
5
She hated the idea of making a mistake, especially a public mistake.
1
They appealed to the old law to discredit and damn the new.
2
So for the sake of principle he continued to damn the fellow.
3
First, the supposed divine charter of the Church to save and damn.
4
I'm in no humour for a ride in that damn hot train.
5
He struck his hand down on the desk: Well, damn the Scotch.
1
The thought of her in the hands of the ape-men was odious.
2
It is odious; but that is the way the job is done.
3
Set free by the sun and the wind, it is odious, intolerable.
4
With all vigor I defend myself against the odious charge of virtuousness.
5
But an odious suspicion had sprung up in the mind of Pope.
1
Above the general din he heard the detestable voice of the turnkey.
2
The national taste, in the meantime, was to the last degree detestable.
3
The vulnerable side of Tony Soprano made his detestable character deeply likable.
4
They'd be right to detest us: beside them, we would be detestable.
5
So I went on to a detestable brutal inn in the town.
1
The animal was reviled as dangerous vermin and a threat to cattle.
2
The guerrillas received special terms under a peace deal reviled by Uribe.
3
Yet on this subcontinent he was the most reviled criminal in history.
4
And many mourned for Pan while the builders built; many reviled him.
5
Sword in hand he sprang at once upon Minerva and reviled her.
1
And today, she'd been hearing strange, unsavory things about herself... from everyone.
2
A few years later a more unsavory scenario for Jennings's mishap emerged.
3
There are a whole lot of unsavory lifestyles in the animal kingdom.
4
But enough of unsavory him: the clique remained and treasured his doctrine.
5
Even if he had to look for it in unsavory places sometimes.
Usage of dammed in English
1
Ichthyofauna of a mountain stream dammed by beaver Archives of Polish Fisheries.
2
Between the ridges flowed the sluggish Antietam, dammed up for milling purposes.
3
The little Guadelle river, a tributary of the Aliso, was completely dammed.
4
The pain of these recollections dammed the torrent of Mr. Tubbs's speech.
5
A mountain stream had been dammed so as to make an island.
6
Her resentment, dammed so long for want of opportunity, carried her away.
7
It's partly natural and it's partly dammed, but it's our swimming hole.
8
The dammed streams made a chain of lakes set in the green meadows.
9
In 2006, it dammed part of this without consulting either Pakistan or India.
10
The great flood of the sky dammed off by the hills.
11
Here and there the streams were dammed by the industrious beaver.
12
Your finger will actually tremble with the dammed-up energy of the repressed impulse.
13
The traffic's a dammed-up river which threatens to overflow its banks.
14
Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake.
15
A long, serpentine pool, as if they'd dammed up a stream.
16
I then dammed the stream, and climbed down its empty bed.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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