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Dam up   /dæm əp/   Listen
Dam up

verb
1.
Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam.  Synonym: dam.






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"Dam up" Quotes from Famous Books



... an end of them, for they were giants in stature and strength. When Noah threatened them with the scourge of God, they would make reply: "If the waters of the flood come from above, they will never reach up to our necks; and if they come from below, the soles of our feet are large enough to dam up the springs." But God bade each drop pass through Gehenna before it fell to earth, and the hot rain scalded the skin of the sinners. The punishment that overtook them was befitting their crime. As their sensual desires had made them hot, and inflamed them to immoral excesses, ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg



Words linked to "Dam up" :   occlude, close up, block, impede, obstruct, jam, obturate



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