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Meanings of dammed in inglés

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

Usage of dammed in inglés
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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
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The pain of these recollections dammed the torrent of Mr. Tubbs's speech.
Spanish Doubloons
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A mountain stream had been dammed so as to make an island.
Driven Back to Eden
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Her resentment, dammed so long for want of opportunity, carried her away.
The Indiscretion of the Duchess / Being a Story Concerning Two L...
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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
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The dammed streams made a chain of lakes set in the green meadows.
Tales Of Hearsay
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In 2006, it dammed part of this without consulting either Pakistan or India.
News.com.au
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The great flood of the sky dammed off by the hills.
Mary Olivier: a Life
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Here and there the streams were dammed by the industrious beaver.
Indian Boyhood
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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...
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The traffic's a dammed-up river which threatens to overflow its banks.
Lost in translation
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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
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I then dammed the stream, and climbed down its empty bed.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
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