Dam Up

Definition: Dam Up

Dam Up

Verb

1. Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Dam Up

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Hindrance

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Expression using "dam up": dam up one's feelings. Additional references.

Chinese 

� � (dam up water with rocks, name of a stone). (various references)

Czech

přehradit (bar, partition, partition off). (various references)

Dutch

bedýken (dam in, embank), afdammen (bar, form an embankment, obstruct). (various references)

Esperanto

digi (form an embankment), interdigigi (dam in, embank). (various references)

German

stauen (dam, keep back, retain, staunch, stop the flow of, Stow, to dam), abdämmen (to dam up). (various references)

Indonesian

membendung (dam, repress, stem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

塞き止める (to check, to dam up, to hold back, to intercept, to keep back), � �き止める (to check, to dam up, to hold back, to intercept, to keep back). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せきとめる (to check, to dam up, to hold back, to intercept, to keep back). (various references)

Pig Latin

amday upay

Portuguese

deter (abstract, arrest, buttonhole, detain, deter, hold back, intercept, refrain, resist, restrain, retain, stop, suspend), represar (dam, embank, impound, pond). (various references)

Romanian

stãvili (arrest, bar, barricade, block, delay, dike, embank, hinder, quench, refrain, restrain, retain, retard, shut, slacken, slug, stem). (various references)

Spanish

represar (dam, stem). (various references)

Swedish

dämma upp (dam). (various references)

Turkish

set çekmek (bank, bank up, build a barrier, dam, dike, stem, terrace), engellemek (balk, bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, cumber, dam, defeat, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, restrain, save, shut out, snag, stem, stymie, surety, trammel), baraj yapmak (dam). (various references)

Turkmen 

bentlemek. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: damp, duma, dump, maud, puma.

-2 letters: amp, amu, dam, dap, dup, mad, map, mud, pad, pam, pud, ump.

-3 letters: ad, am, ma, mu, pa, um, up.

+1 letter: mudcap.

+2 letters: mudcaps, mudflap, mudpack.

+3 letters: campused, dumpcart, gazumped, mudflaps, mudpacks, paludism, plumaged, undamped, unmapped.

+4 letters: amplitude, amputated, dumpcarts, galumphed, harumphed, mudcapped, palladium, paludisms, pompadour, unclamped.

+5 letters: amplitudes, campground, deutoplasm, epicardium, harrumphed, humpbacked, mudcapping, multipaned, palladiums, panjandrum, parapodium, plasmodium, pompadours, praesidium, subsampled, unexampled, unhampered, unimpaired.