Damp (album)
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Slightly wet
"Clothes damp with perspiration"
"A moist breeze"
"Eyes moist with tears"

noun


(2)   A slight wetness

verb


(3)   Lessen in force or effect
"Soften a shock"
"Break a fall"
(4)   Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
"Muffle the message"
(5)   Restrain or discourage
"The sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"
(6)   Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
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Etymology


Akin to Low German , Dutch , and Danish , German , Icelandic , Swedish , and to German imperative of . Also Old English .

Adjective



  1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
    • O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear - John Dryden
  2. 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; fog; fogginess; vapor.
    • Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. - John Milton
  2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
    • 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
  3. 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. - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3238/is_200004/ai_n7935204
 
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