The meaning of Dam

noun

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area.

Usage examples:

His forces launched an artillery barrage on the city

verb

Bombard (someone) with questions, criticisms, complaints, etc.

Usage examples:

His doctor was barraged with unsolicited advice

noun

An improvised barrier erected across a street or other thoroughfare to prevent or delay the movement of opposing forces.

Usage examples:

They built barricades in the narrow streets

verb

Block or defend with a barricade.

Usage examples:

They barricaded the building and occupied it all night

noun

A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.

Usage examples:

The mountain barrier between norway and sweden

noun

Anything used or acting to block someone from going somewhere or from doing something, or to block something from happening

Usage examples:

The secret service erected concrete barriers around the white house., jackie robinson was the afric…

noun

Something that prevents something else from happening or makes it more difficult

Usage examples:

Barrier (to sth) in an ideal world, there would be no barriers to the free movement of people betwe…

noun

An obstruction which makes movement or flow difficult or impossible.

Usage examples:

A blockage in the pipes

noun

Something that stops something else passing through, or the act of stopping something passing through

Usage examples:

His death was caused by a blockage in one of his arteries.

verb

(of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air.

Usage examples:

Willie choked on a mouthful of tea

noun

A valve in the carburettor of a petrol engine that is used to reduce the amount of air in the fuel mixture when the engine is started.

Usage examples:

An automatic choke

noun

The inedible mass of silky fibres at the centre of a globe artichoke.

Usage examples:

Cut the artichokes in half and remove the hairy inner choke and any hard leaves, leaving only the t…

adjective

Only a short distance away or apart in space or time.

Usage examples:

The hotel is close to the sea

adverb

Very near to someone or something; with very little space between.

Usage examples:

They stood close to the door

noun

Another term for high (sense 7 of the adjective).

noun

A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.

Usage examples:

Chelsea embankment

noun

An artificial slope made of earth or stones

Usage examples:

A river embankment

noun

A thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone.

Usage examples:

A hindrance to the development process

noun

Something that makes it more difficult for you to do something or for something to develop

Usage examples:

I've never considered my disability a hindrance, but other people have.

noun

An embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.

Usage examples:

Construction of levees and embankments prevents the floodplain from performing this function and tr…

noun

A formal reception of visitors or guests.

Usage examples:

The great stop on the washington social circuit was the diplomat's levee

noun

A wall made of land or other materials that is built to stop a river from overflowing (= flowing over its edges)

Usage examples:

Much of the city was under water after floods broke levees and forced the evacuation of 50,000 peop…

verb

Block (an opening, path, road, etc.); be or get in the way of.

Usage examples:

She was obstructing the entrance

noun

The action of obstructing or the state of being obstructed.

Usage examples:

Walkers could proceed with the minimum of obstruction

verb

Stop, close up, or obstruct (an opening, orifice, or passage).

Usage examples:

Thick make-up can occlude the pores

verb

To block something

Usage examples:

Veins can get occluded by blood clots.

noun

A continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land.

Usage examples:

A garden wall

verb

Another term for wall brown.

noun

A vertical structure that divides or encloses something

Usage examples:

The walls of the fortress were more than eighteen inches thick., we’d like the walls painted white.