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damn up

damn up is the misspelling of dam up.

Meaning of dam up

Verb

dam up (third-person singular simple present dams up, present participle damming up, simple past and past participle dammed up)

  1. To build a dam on, thus restricting the flow.
    • to dam up a lake

Questions about damn up

What is damn up the misspelling of?
Damn up is the misspelling of dam up.

Words near damn up in the dictionary

  1. damn skippy
  2. damn straight
  3. damn the torpedoes
  4. damn tootin'
  5. damn tooting
  6. damn up
  7. damn well
  8. damn with faint praise
  9. damn Yankee
  10. damn Yankees
  11. damn you

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Adapted from Wiktionary: damn up (page history and authors); dam up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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