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Damp

//dæmp// adj, name, noun, verb

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Adjective

1
In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
"25 January 2017, Leena Camadoo writing in The Guardian, Dominican banana producers at sharp end of climate change Once the farms have been drained and the dead plants have been cut down and cleared, farmers then have to be alert for signs of black sigatoka, a devastating fungus which flourishes in damp conditions and can destroy banana farms."
2
Despondent; dispirited, downcast. figuratively
"27 July 2016, Jane O’Faherty in The Irish Independent, Monarchs and prison officers win big on second race day Though Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were few damp spirits in Galway on day two of the races."
3
Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
"The Roadhouse was twenty-seve miles down the road from Niniltna, nine feet and three inches outside the Niniltna Native Association's tribal jurisdiction, and therefore not subject to the dry law currently in effect. Or was it damp? Kate thought it might have changed, yet again, at the last election, from dry to damp, or maybe it was from wet to damp."

Adjective

1
slightly wet wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
2
A surname from German.
3
A surname from English.

Noun

1
Moisture; humidity; dampness. countable, uncountable
"Ere twice in murk and occidental damp / Moist Hesperus hath quench’d his sleepy lamp,"
2
Initialism of damage-associated molecular pattern. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3
a slight wetness wordnet
4
Fog; fogginess; vapor. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Night […] with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom."
5
Acronym of deficits in attention, motor control and perception. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

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nucleotide derived from adenine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group wordnet
7
Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Ev’n now, while thus I stand blest in thy Presence, / A secret Damp of Grief comes o’er my Thoughts,"
8
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc. archaic, countable, historical, uncountable
"There are sulphurous Vapours which infect the Vegetables, and render the Grass unwholsom to the Cattle that feed upon it: Miners are often hurt by these Steams. Observations made in some of the Mines in Derbyshire, describe four sorts of those Damps."

Verb

1
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). transitive
"Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations."
2
lessen in force or effect wordnet
3
To dampen; to make moderately wet. archaic, transitive
"to damp cloth"
4
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible wordnet
5
To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. archaic, transitive
"How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!"

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restrain or discourage wordnet
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deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

Borrowed from German Damp.

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