Damp
[dæmp]
Definition
(noun.) a slight wetness.
(verb.) restrain or discourage; 'the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere'.
(adj.) slightly wet; 'clothes damp with perspiration'; 'a moist breeze'; 'eyes moist with tears' .
Typist: Serena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
(n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
(n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
(superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
(superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
(n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Moisture, vapor, fog, dampness.
a. Moist, humid, dank, wet.
v. a. [1]. Moisten, dampen.[2]. Check, repress, restrain, moderate, allay, abate.[3]. Chill, deaden, depress, deject.
Editor: Oswald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN: blunt, dishearten, quench, slack, moderate, humid, wet, moist,discourage, discountenance, repress
ANT:Urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite
Checked by Carmen
Definition
n. vapour mist: moist air: lowness of spirits: (pl.) dangerous vapours in mines &c.—v.t. to wet slightly: to chill: to discourage: to check: to make dull.—adj. moist foggy: sometimes in the form Damp′y.—v.t. and v.i. Damp′en to make or become damp or moist.—n. Damp′er that which checks or moderates: a mechanical appliance for reducing currents musical vibration &c.: (Australia) a kind of unfermented bread.—adj. Damp′ish somewhat damp.—n. Damp′ishness.—adv. Damp′ly.—n. Damp′ness.—Damping off (hort.) the death of plants from excess of moisture.
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Examples
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was a golden surface on the brown cliffs but now, and behold they are only damp earth. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Damp, but not wet linen, may possibly give colds; but no one catches cold by bathing, and no clothes can be wetter than water itself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The printing ink is applied with large rollers, and the damped paper having been placed carefully upon the stone, with blankets at the back, it is passed through the press. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I returned to my home in unusual spirits: they were a little damped, however, by the reflection that I had been doing wrong. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A damped paper is next laid on, and when subjected to great pressure, an exact copy of the drawing or writing is produced. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This silence damped me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Her spirits were damped, at any rate, and she found it very difficult to go on talking at all, much more in the wild way that she had done. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If the damper is kept open, coal is rapidly consumed, and the additional heat passes out through the chimney, and is lost to use. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the fire is started, the damper should be opened wide in order to allow the escape of smoke; but after the fire is well started there is less smoke, and the damper may be partly closed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They were, perhaps, overtaken by the growth of the European forests, as the climate became milder and damper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The nitrogen in the bottle, not only does not assist the burning of the match, but it acts as a damper to the burning. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- However, Meyler spoiled my preferment with Ebrington by hurting his lordship's vanity and thus damping all his ardour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The padded end of the damping spring rests against the diaphragm and prevents excessive vibration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He sent a damping message to a solitary who had invented a new degree in saintliness by chaining himself to a rock in a narrow cave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our strongest holds are not proof against a storm of hail, and even a dark cloud damps the very stoutest heart. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Omar