damp

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and Danish damp (“vapor, steam, fog”), German Dampf, Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Old English dampen (“to choke, suffocate”).

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damp (comparative damper, superlative dampest)

  1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
    • O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear - John Dryden
    The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.
    The paint is still damp, so please don't touch it.
  2. (obsolete) 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

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Being in a state between dry and wet
Dejected

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damp (countable and uncountable; plural damps)

  1. Moisture; humidity; dampness.
  2. (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
    • Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. - John Milton
  3. (archaic) Dejection or depression.
    • 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
  4. (archaic, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.

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Moisture
Dejection
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc

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damp (third-person singular simple present damps, present participle damping, simple past and past participle damped) (transitive)


  1. (archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth.
  2. (archaic) 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. - [1]

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To render damp
To put out, as fire
To suppress vibrations or oscillations
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[edit] Danish

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damp c. (singular definite dampen, plural indefinite dampe)

  1. steam

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    Inflection of damp
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative damp dampen dampe dampene
genitive damps dampens dampes dampenes

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damp

  1. imperative of dampe

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damp m. (plural dampen)

  1. vapour (UK), vapor (US)

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damp

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dampen.
  2. imperative of dampen.

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damp

  1. past tense of dimpa.
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