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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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Adjective[]

Damp (comparative damper, superlative dampest)

Positive
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
  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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See also[]

  • Appendix:Word formation verb -en noun -ness

Noun[]

Singular
Damp

Plural
s

Damp (s)

  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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Derived terms[]

  • chokedamp
  • damp sheet
  • firedamp

Verb[]

Infinitive
to Damp

Third person singular
-

Simple past
-

Past participle
-

Present participle
-

to Damp (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -) (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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Anagrams[]

  • admp,
  • M.D. Pa.

Danish[]

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia da

Noun[]

Damp c. (singular definite Dampen, plural indefinite Dampe)

  1. steam

Inflection[]

Verb[]

Damp

  1. Imperative of dampe.

Dutch[]

Noun[]

Damp m. (plural dampen)

  1. vapour (UK), vapor (US)

Derived terms[]

  • zuurdamp

Swedish[]

Verb[]

damp

  1. preterit active of dimpa

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