damming
Blocking water flow
Damming is blocking or obstructing the flow of water, as a dam does: They spent the summer damming the creek to make a swimming hole.
By extension, damming up can mean holding back anything that wants to flow: She was damming up emotions that would eventually burst out.
Raised earth structure
- leveeRiver flood barrier
- dikeWall against flooding
- weirLow river barrier
- barrageSustained, overwhelming attack
spillway · sluicegate · impoundment · reservoir · earthfill · cofferdam · buttress · headwall
Large water storage basin
- catchmentArea collecting water runoff
- watershedDrainage area boundary
- streamflowRiver water's measured movement
- sedimentationParticles settling in liquid
inundation · aquifer · riparian · tributary · headwater · fluvial · backwater · water table
Obstruction halting movement
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- stemmingRoot-form reduction process
- holding backPreventing forward movement
restriction · stoppage · obstruction · choking · constriction · barrier · occlusion · backup
Temporary woodland dwelling
- gnawingPersistent biting action
- castorSwiveling furniture wheel
- teethEnamel-covered chewing structures
- tailRear animal appendage
pond · sticks · mud · branches · burrow · kit · colony · felling
Process of building something
- concreteSolid building mixture
- reinforcementAdding support or encouragement
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
civil · hydroelectric · turbine · waterworks · irrigation · compaction · aggregate · grouting
Preventing destructive overflow
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- inundationOverwhelming surge of water
floodplain · flashflood · floodwater · water management · mitigation · diversion · flood stage · breach
embankment
Raised earth structure
barrage · spillway · sluicegate · impoundment · reservoir · earthfill · cofferdam · buttress · headwall · penstock
reservoir
Large water storage basin
- catchmentArea collecting water runoff
- watershedDrainage area boundary
- streamflowRiver water's measured movement
sedimentation · inundation · aquifer · riparian · tributary · headwater · fluvial · backwater · water table · evaporation
blockage
Obstruction halting movement
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- stemmingRoot-form reduction process
holding back · restriction · stoppage · obstruction · choking · constriction · barrier · occlusion · backup · containment
lodge
Temporary woodland dwelling
- gnawingPersistent biting action
- castorSwiveling furniture wheel
- teethEnamel-covered chewing structures
tail · pond · sticks · mud · branches · burrow · kit · colony · felling · woodcutting
construction
Process of building something
- concreteSolid building mixture
- reinforcementAdding support or encouragement
- foundationUnderlying support structure
infrastructure · civil · hydroelectric · turbine · waterworks · irrigation · compaction · aggregate · grouting · surveying
flood control
Preventing destructive overflow
inundation · floodplain · flashflood · floodwater · water management · mitigation · diversion · flood stage · breach · overtopping
- water actionswatering, soaking, flooding, spraying, dripping
- containingcontaining, enclosing, encasing, wrapping, enveloping
- land changeslandslides, earthquake, erosion, landslide, earthquakes
- restraintshandcuffs, shackles, chains, ropes, cuffs
dammingreleasing
Allowing to escape
draining · unblocking · opening · freeing · breaching
dammingreleasing
Allowing to escape
unleashing · freeing · letting loose · unblocking · liberating