DAMPEN

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

2.
v.

To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm. The Century.

3.
v.

To become damp; to deaden. Byron.


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