Dam
Dam verb - To prevent passage through by filling with something.
Preventing and dam are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Preventing" with "Dam", this verbs are similar.
Preventing
Dam and preventing are semantically related in keep from happening or continuing topic. Sometimes you can use "Dam" instead a verb "Preventing".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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In The Angry Beavers episode "Salmon Sez", the Beavers' dam is blocking a group of salmon from migrating, thus preventing them from spawning.
- In addition, many levels were based around preventing a disaster (sabotaged dam, volcano eruption, etc.), so that the risk from enemies was that they would slow you down rather than any risk that they would kill you.
Source: Power Creep, Power Seep - The only thing preventing a riot was a biker in a full helmet appearing out of nowhere and delivering a "spear" tackle to Cena, allowing Van Dam to pin Cena and bring the WWE Championship to ECW - and that biker, of course, turned out to be Cena's archenemy, Edge.
Source: Overshadowed by Controversy
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