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Definition: DAMMED |
DAMMEDImperative & past participle1. Of Dam |
Date "DAMMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1741. (references) |
Crosswords: DAMMED |
| Specialty definitions using "DAMMED": Glacier Dammed Lake ♦ Jokulhlaup ♦ SUPERVISOR, WATERWORKS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But if I dammed it, it would drown all the wildlife! (Young Einstein; writing credit: David Roach and Yahoo Serious.) Maybe because you're acting like a God Dammed loser! (Never Among Friends; writing credit: Jason M. Allentoff; Roger Troy Schneider) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dammed (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DAMMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "DAMMED" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 60% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 26.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DAMMED": dammed-up. | |
Ending with "DAMMED": glacially-dammed, ice-dammed, moraine-dammed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dammed queen | 29 |
dammed queen soundtrack | 12 |
dammed | 4 |
dammed lyrics queen | 2 |
dammed queen sound track | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DAMMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 筑坝于 (Damming). (various references) | |
Danish | opstuvet vand i jord (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water), opstemmet soe (artificial lake, barrier lake, dammed lake), kunstig soe (artificial lake, barrier lake, dammed lake). (various references) | |
Dutch | stuwvocht (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water), stuwmeer (artificial lake, backwater, barrier lake, dammed lake, man-made lake, reservoir, storage), opgestuwd water (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water), opgestuwd grondwater (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water), natheid door opgestuwd water natheid door opgestuwd grondwater (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Barita Mozo (Dammed Meuse). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylivesi (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water), patoutua (be dammed). (various references) | |
French | lac de retenue (dammed lake), lac de barrage (dammed lake), eau de retenue (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water). (various references) | |
German | staute. (various references) | |
Indonesian | terbendung (dammed up, held back). (various references) | |
Italian | dannato, maledetto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 止め湖 (dammed lake). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せきとめ" (dammed lake). (various references) | |
Korean | 둑으로 막". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammedday.(various references) | |
Spanish | pantano (artificial lake, barrier lake, bog, dam, dammed lake, Fen, marsh, morass, moss, quagmire, reservoir, swamp), humedad excesiva debida al estancamiento de agua gravitante (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppdämt vatten i mark (dammed-up groundwater, dammed-up water, wetness due to dammed-up groundwater, wetness due to dammed-up water). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DAMMED": goddammed. (additional references) | |
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"DAMMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ammed, cammed, Damad, damed, damel, damet, Dammam, dammes, dammit, damne, damnen, damner, Damnoen, deamed, demed, dimed, Dommel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DAMMED" (pronounced da"md) |
| 4 | d a" m d | damned. |
| 3 | -a" m d | crammed, jammed, rammed, scammed, slammed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-m-m" | |
-2 letters: dame, dead, made, mead. | |
-3 letters: add, dad, dam, mad, mae, med, mem. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, am, de, ed, em, ma, me, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-m-m" | |
+1 letter: drammed. | |
+3 letters: bemadamed, commanded, goddammed, middleman. | |
+4 letters: diagrammed, mandamused. | |
+5 letters: macadamized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4D 4D 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -- -- . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A M M E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004D 004D 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383547473938 |
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