Dam and Plug

Dam

Dam verb - To prevent passage through by filling with something.

Usage example: ice floes were damming the river

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Plug and dam are semantically related In some cases you can use "Plug" instead a verb "Dam".

Plug verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.

Usage example: plugged the hole in the wall with putty

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Dam and plug are semantically related in stop topic. Sometimes you can use "Dam" instead a verb "Plug".

Nearby Words: plugged, plugboard

obvious	obvious dam	obvious plug
huge	huge dam	huge plug
wooden	wooden dam	wooden plug
new	new dam	new plug
Other adjectives: last, vulnerable, giant, electrical, oversized.

F/A-18 Hornet and its Korea expansion pack both have missions where you have to nuke a dam, namely "Pull the Plug" in the former and "Water Fall" in the latter.

Source: Big Dam Plot
One of the finale missions, "Pull the Plug", has you fly through a river valley to avoid bombardment by SAM's, then take out a dam with a nuke.

Source: Airstrike Impossible
Big Dam Plot: The plot of this special revolves around Scuffy and his friends trying to find something big and strong enough to plug the hole in the breakwater, to prevent Harbortown from being flooded by an incoming storm.

Source: Western Animation / Little Golden Book Land

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