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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a dam.

Etymologies

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dam +‎ -like

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Examples

  • With more rain expected, he said, there are still many potential threats, ranging from the spread of cholera to fears that a damlike structure known as the Guddu Barrage on the Indus

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • For his left eye, doctors created a lower damlike eyelid using forehead skin and a piece of tissue from the roof of Mikeworth's mouth.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2009

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