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ice-dammed

ice-dammed adjective: obstructed or held back by ice.

Adjective

ice-dammed (not comparable)

  1. Obstructed or held back by ice.
    • I will merely say that only one of two conclusions seems open to us; either the terraces and water-marks are old sea-margins, or else they are the margins of huge ice-dammed lakes.1877, Cambridge University Press (publisher), Geological Magazine, page 75
    • our base camp was pitched on the marginal moraine close to the eastern scarp of Kverfkjöll and overlooking a little ice-dammed lake.1932, International News Company (publisher), The Illustrated London News - Volume 91, page 405

Origin of ice-dammed

From ice dam + -ed.

Questions about ice-dammed

What does ice-dammed mean?
Ice-dammed means obstructed or held back by ice.
What part of speech is ice-dammed?
Ice-dammed is an adjective.

Words near ice-dammed in the dictionary

  1. ice-cross downhill
  2. ice-cube
  3. ice-cube tray
  4. ice-cube trays
  5. ice-cubes
  6. ice-dammed
  7. ice-feet
  8. ice-float
  9. ice-floats
  10. ice-foot
  11. ice-foots

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