Fromdamp +-en.
dampen (third-person singular simple presentdampens,present participledampening,simple past and past participledampened)
- (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
- (intransitive) To become damp or moist.
- (transitive) To lessen; todull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
We won't let the bad newsdampen our spirits.
- 1883 "Pomona's Daughter",Frank R. Stockton, inThe Century, vol. XXVI, number 1, May,page 25
- He was dreadfully familiar with everything, and talked about some places we were longing to see in a way that considerablydampened our enthusiasm.
2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, inThe New York Times:Pregnant women are 20 times as likely as other healthy young women to contract listeriosis, probably because in pregnancy the immune system isdampened to prevent rejection of the fetus.
2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, inBBC[1], London: BBC, retrieved22 May 2020:The firm said changes in consumer behaviour had alsodampened demand for the powder.
- (transitive, proscribed) Tosuppressvibrations (mechanical) oroscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).[usage 1]
- (intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
- ^Due to confusion with the similar-looking verbdamp, overgeneralization from the nearby sense of "to lessen or to dull", and/or conflation of transitive "damp" with intransitive "dampen", "dampen" is increasingly used in nontechnical contexts as a synonym for "damp", especially in the case of "dampened" versus "damped". However, this usage is still considered incorrect in technical contexts.
- Bulgarian:навлажнявам (bg)(navlažnjavam),овлажнявам (bg)(ovlažnjavam)
- Finnish:kostuttaa (fi)
- French:humecter (fr),humidifier (fr),mouiller (fr)
- German:befeuchten (de),anfeuchten (de)
- Hungarian:nedvesít (hu),megnedvesít (hu)
- Ido:arozetar (io)
- Italian:inumidire (it)
- Māori:whakamākūkū
- Middle English:moisten
- Russian:увлажня́ть (ru) impf(uvlažnjátʹ),увлажни́ть (ru) pf(uvlažnítʹ)
- Slovak:navlhčiť
- Spanish:humedecer (es),humectar (es),mojar (es)
- Swedish:fukta (sv),väta (sv)
- Ukrainian:зволо́жувати impf(zvolóžuvaty),зволо́жити pf(zvolóžyty)
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Fromdamp +-en. The meaning “to vape” is a semantic loan from English.
dampen
- (intransitive) tosteam, to give offsteam orsmoke
- (intransitive) tovape(to inhale the vapour of an electronic cigarette)
- Synonym:vapen
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
dampen
- plural ofdamp
dampen
- alternative form ofdampnen
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