damp
damp
- n a slight wetness
- v deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- v restrain or discourage
the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere - v make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- v lessen in force or effect
- s slightly wet
clothes damp with perspiration
- She tells stories of people who are taken from their homes at night and never come back; about extrajudicial executions; about the hungry refugees in cold and damp camps.
- Then comes Election Day and a piece of damp cardboard.
- Firedamp The second greatest mining catastrophy known in Germany occurred in the Minister Stein mine at Dortmund when 200 or more miners perished in an explosion.