Synonyms for hoover dam
hoover dam

Princeton's WordNet

1. Hoover Damnoun

   a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada

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1. Bryan Kroten:

   It's two and a half hours of pure experience from the time the helicopter lifts off to the time it returns, as you depart, you'll head towards Lake Las Vegas and Lake Mead. Then we do a giant 'S' turn over the Hoover Dam, so passengers on both sides of the helicopter have a perfect view.

2. David Hayes:

   Decisions to cut back water deliveries below the Hoover Dam cannot wait for a complex water rights case to be litigated up through the Supreme Court. That can take years, plus, no legal decision will solve the fundamental problem of insufficient water. That reality needs to be faced.

3. Tom Robinson:

   These glacial dams are no different to constructed dams, if you take the Hoover Dam, for instance, you’ve got a massive lake behind it, but if you suddenly remove the Hoover Dam, that water has to go somewhere, and it’s going to come cascading down a valley in massive flood waves.