Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from a dam, mound, or obstruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove a
dam from a river - verb To remove an
obstruction (physically or figuratively)
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Examples
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And yet, Non omnem molitor quae fluit undam videt, the miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill: no doubt, but, as in our days, these were of the commonalty, all the great ones were not so much as called in question for it.
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The caterpillar had thoughtfully recovered his pack, which lay nearby, apparently undam-aged.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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But the word was not yet spoken which was to undam the pent-up torrent, and bear down with unrelenting vengeance upon the now exulting columns of the enemy.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Stella, mihi, multumque pares bacchamur ad aras et sociam doctis haurimus ab amnibus undam. at te nascentem gremio mea prima recepit260
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He told himself he was become a philosopher, and was far from suspecting the terrible passions which the future was to undam.
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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_Ingentem foribus domus alla superbis_ Mane _salutantûm totis vomit aedibus undam_.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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But the word was not yet spoken which was to undam the pent-up torrent, and bear down with unrelenting vengeance upon the now exulting columns of the enemy.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839
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This is the true glory of man, that "one generation doth not pass away, and another come," velut unda supervenit undam; but that we leave our improvements behind us.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831
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Just as the Marquand Chapel and its organ will be a good fit for Mr. Suzuki's early-music repertoire come April, he said, so too were the grander 2,695-seat Woolsey Hall and the Newberry organ suited for epic pieces like Mr. Preston's concert closer, Liszt's Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam."
NYT > Home Page By PHILLIP LUTZ 2012
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Quid celebras auratam undam, et combusta pyropis ii.
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658
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