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undammed

undammed is the simple past and past participle of undam.

Meaning of undam

Verb

undam (third-person singular simple present undams, present participle undamming, simple past and past participle undammed)

  1. (transitive) To remove a dam from (a river).
  2. (transitive) To free from a physical or figurative obstruction.

Adjective

undammed (not comparable)

  1. Not having been dammed.
    • When you fly over an undammed river like the Fraser I grew up with, the plume of silt spewed into the ocean is astonishing, a good three kilometres of brown refusing to mix with the green of the ocean.2008, Brian Harvey, The End of the River

Origin of undammed

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From un- + dammed.

Questions about undammed

What does undammed mean?
Undammed means not having been dammed.
What is undammed the simple past and past participle of?
Undammed is the simple past and past participle of undam.
What part of speech is undammed?
Undammed is an adjective.

Words near undammed in the dictionary

  1. undamaged
  2. undamaging
  3. undamascened
  4. undamasked
  5. undammable
  6. undammed
  7. undamming
  8. undamn
  9. undamned
  10. undamning
  11. undamns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undammed (page history and authors); undam (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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