Clear
Clear verb - To rid the surface of (as an area) from things in the way.
Usage example: the early settlers worked hard to clear the land for crops
Dam
Dam verb - To prevent passage through by filling with something.
Usage example: ice floes were damming the river
Both words in one sentence
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It's not clear whether the dam is ever actually threatened, though.
Source: Big Dam Plot -
One even blows up a dam to try and clear out Fire Nation soldiers, knowing that the flood will kill innocent civilians as well.
Source: War Is Hell -
Clear My Name: In "Traitors Three", the Centurions are falsely implicated when a dam is destroyed, Doc Terror steals a space shuttle and flooded a town- to rescue a school- which was abandoned for years- until it was crushed in a landslide.
Source: Western Animation / Centurions
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