damp

[Damp]

Something that's damp is slightly wet or soggy. If your shoes are damp when you enter your friend's white carpeted house, you should probably take them off.

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Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

Noun
a slight wetness

Verb
lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"

Verb
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"

Verb
restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"

Verb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

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Adjective S.
slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

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.

Damp

Damp , n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor, steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG. dimpfen to smoke, imp. dampf.] 1. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
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.
It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.
3. (Mining) A gaseous prodact, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc. Choke damp, a damp consisting principally of carboni acid gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. -- Damp sheet, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas. -- Fire damp, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.

Damp

Damp , a. [Compar. Damper ; superl. Dampest.] 1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
2. Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]
All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp.

Damp

Damp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Damped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Damping.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.] 1. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; 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. "To damp your tender hopes." Akenside.
Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.
How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.

Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.

To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

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Usage 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.

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