dammed
SayDAMD/dæmd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of dam.
Beavers dammed the creek, flooding the meadow upstream.
The narrow valley had been dammed long before the town was built.
Note
One spelling serves as both the past tense and the past participle, and the final m doubles before -ed, as it does for other short words ending in a single vowel and consonant. On its own it is a simple past (beavers dammed the creek). With have it forms the perfect (had dammed), and with be the passive (was dammed). The verb is transitive, so something is always dammed: a river, a stream or a valley.
dammed is a form of dam
dam, verb: To block or restrict the flow of water by placing a barrier across it. Full entry
- Spelling
- dam → dammed: double the m, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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