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

Definitions

1. noun. A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
2. noun. A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive verb. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
7. noun. female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
8. noun. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

   Synonyms: dike, dyke

9. noun. a metric unit of length equal to ten meters

   Synonyms: decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm

10. verb. obstruct with, or as if with, a dam

    "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"

Synonyms

dike, dyke, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dam:

adm, amd, mad

Common word forms

dams, dames, dammed, dammer, damming

Words from these letters

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