Dam
Dam verb - To prevent passage through by filling with something.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Force 10 from Navarone: In this Film of the Book (and the original book), a dam is destroyed in order to wash away a bridge and prevent Nazi troops from wiping out a group of Yugoslavian Partisans.
Source: Big Dam Plot -
Subverted since 1968, when the entire temple was painstakingly relocated to a higher elevation to prevent it from being flooded by the Nile after the completion of a dam.
Source: Sundial Waypoint -
Ley Line: The Olthoi have an intuitive understanding of mana flows and dam them to prevent the use of magic.
Source: Video Game / Asheron's Call
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Prevent and Dam. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dam/prevent
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