dammed

She was like a dammed-up stream that suddenly finds an outlet.

Failing that a dammed-up pond may form the only supply of water.

It is as if all this had been dammed up in his heart for long, and to say a single word was to say everything.

The very minor circumstance of their landlady being in the room dammed a flood.

Fortunately the river was partly dammed, in order to accumulate water for the many saw-mills under the falls.