Damp

Adjective

 * 1) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
 * O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear - John Dryden
 * 1)  Pertaining to or affected by noxious vapours; dejected, stupified.
 * 1667, All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp - John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 522-3

Noun

 * 1) Moisture; humidity; dampness.
 * 2)  Fog; fogginess; vapor.
 * Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. - John Milton
 * 1)  Dejection or depression.
 * Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul. - Joseph Addison
 * It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion. - James David Forbes
 * 1)  A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.

Verb

 * 1)  To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth.
 * 2)  To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
 * 3) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * To damp your tender hopes - Mark Akenside
 * Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug - Francis Bacon
 * How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! - Sir John Lubbock
 * The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
 * Hollow rollers damp vibration. -

Adjectives
murk; occidental; death; soothing; uncheerful; choking; senseless; sickly. adverbs slightly; clammily; chillingly; penetratingly; rawly; stuffily; noxiously; foggily; depressingly; inescapably; pestilentially; mistily; mysteriously; coldly; smotheringly;muggily; soggily; soddenly; icily; piercingly; frigidly.

Thesaurus
abate, abridge, absorb the shock, acoustic tile, afterdamp, allay, alleviate, antiknock, arrest, asperge, asphyxiate, assimilate to, assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, baffler, balance, bank the fire, beat down, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, blackdamp, blow out, blunt, bogginess, boggy, bottle up, break the fall, breath, cast down, censor, chasten, check, chill, choke, choke off, chokedamp, clamminess, clammy, clamp down on, cloud, cold water, compress, constrain, control, cool, cork, cork up, countercheck, crack down on, cramp, crepehanger, cripple, crush, curb, curtail, cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, dabble, dam up, damp down, dampen, dampen the spirits, dampener, damper, dampish, dampness, dank, darken, dash, de-emphasize, deaden, deafen, debilitate, decrease, deduct, deflate, deflect, deject, delay, depreciate, depress, detain, deter, determent, deterrent, devitalize, dew, dewiness, dewy, diminish, disaffect, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dispirit, distract, divert, douche, douse, downgrade, downplay, drenched, drown, dull, effluvium, enervate, enfeeble, equalize, equilibrize, even, eviscerate, exhalation, exhaust, extenuate, extinguish, exudation, fenny, fetid air, firedamp, flatten, flatus, fluid, fogginess, fume, gag, gruel, harmonize, hinder, hold back, hold down, hold in check, hold up, homogenize, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humidity, humor, hushcloth, impede, indispose, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, irrigate, jump on, keep back, keep down, keep in check, keep under, keep within bounds, kill, killjoy, knock down, lay, lay low, lenify, lessen, level, lighten, lower, lower the spirits, make uniform, malaria, marshiness, marshy, meddle, mephitis, miasma, mistiness, misty, mitigate, moderate, modulate, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness, moisture, muffle, muffler, muggy, mute, muzzle, neutralize, normalize, obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, out, paddle, palliate, pare, pessimist, play down, pour water on, press down, puff of smoke, put down, put off, put out, quash, quell, quench, quietener, rainfall, raininess, rainy, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, reek, regularize, regulate, repel, repress, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, roll back, roric, sadden, sap, saturated, scale down, scotch, set back, shake, shake up, shorten, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, showeriness, shut down on, silence, silence cloth, silencer, simplify, sink, sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slobber, slop, slosh, slow down, smash, smoke, smooth, smother, smudge, snub, snuff, snuff out, soaked, soaking, sober, sober down, soddenness, soft pedal, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up, sogginess, soggy, soppiness, sordine, sordino, sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation, sourdine, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spoilsport, sponge, spray, sprinkle, squash, squelch, stabilize, stamp out, stanch, standardize, steam, steamy, step down, stereotype, sticky, stifle, stop, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, swampiness, swampy, swash, symmetrize, syringe, tacky, take from, tame, temper, throttle, tone down, tune down, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undried, uniformize, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, vapor, volatile, water, water vapor, wateriness, weaken, wean from, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, wet, wet blanket, wet down, wetness, wettish, wettishness

Etymology
Akin to Low German damp:, Dutch damp:, and Danish damp:, German Dampf:, Icelandic dampi:, Swedish damm:, and to German dampf: imperative of dimpfen:. Also Old English dampen:.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/d{mp/}}

Adjective

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 湿っぽい(しめっぽい, shimeppoi)


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: húmedo
 * Turkish:
 * !Xóõ:


 * Bulgarian: унил, потиснат

Derived terms

 * dampen
 * dampness

Noun

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: humedad
 * Turkish: nem, rutubet


 * Bulgarian: униние, потиснатост


 * Bulgarian: рудничен газ
 * Finnish: kaivoskaasu


 * Italian:

Derived terms

 * chokedamp
 * damp sheet
 * firedamp

Verb

 * Bulgarian: овлажнявам
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,


 * Italian:
 * Spanish: humedecer
 * Swedish: fukta


 * Bulgarian: задушавам
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: ,
 * Italian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: заглушавам, затихвам
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: amortecer
 * Swedish:


 * : dampen

Anagrams

 * M.D. Pa.

Noun

 * 1) steam

Noun

 * 1) vapour (UK), vapor (US)

Derived terms

 * zuurdamp