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damp
noun
- a slight wetness; moisture
- a harmful gas sometimes found in mines; firedamp; blackdamp
- Archaic a dejected or depressed state
adjective
- somewhat moist or wet; humid
- dejected; depressed
transitive verb
- to make damp; moisten
- to slow the combustion of (a fire) by cutting off most of the air supply; bank: usually with down
- to check or reduce (energy or action)
- to check or deaden the vibration of (a piano string, drum membrane, etc.)
- to reduce the amplitude of (oscillations, waves, etc.)
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