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dam
dam is a 3-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
- 2noun
A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- 3noun
A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
- 4noun
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
- 7noun
female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
- 8noun
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- 9noun
a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
- 10verb
obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
"dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"
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