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Dampen   /dˈæmpən/   Listen
Dampen

verb
(past & past part. dampened; pres. part. dampening)
1.
Smother or suppress.  Synonym: stifle.
2.
Make moist.  Synonyms: moisten, wash.
3.
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.  Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down.
4.
Reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves).
5.
Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible.  Synonyms: damp, deaden.
6.
Check; keep in check (a fire).
7.
Lessen in force or effect.  Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken.  "Break a fall"



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"Dampen" Quotes from Famous Books



... cabin before, but never had he felt about it as he felt at this moment. There had always been the presence of Ben Nyland to dampen the romantic thoughts that had beset him—for there had been a time when—if Peggy Nyland had been willing—he would have ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... yet the sight of that bowed, lovely head went home to him very deeply indeed. She was the instrument of his vengeance, necessary to his cause, but there was nothing to be gained by afflicting her needlessly. At least, he could give her his pity. It would not weaken him, dampen his fiery resolution, to give ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall
... defeated, he can see no reason why he should not succeed. If his forces are driven back, shattered and destroyed, he is not cast down, but angry—he forthwith swears vengeance and another trial. He is quite insatiable—as a failure does not dampen him, success can never satisfy him. His plans are always on a great scale; and, if they sometimes exceed his means of execution, at least, "he who aims at the sun," though he may lose his arrow, "will not strike the ground." He is a great projector—but he is eminently practical, as well as theoretical; ...
— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel
... ROOTED IN YOUR LIFE. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. The need of securing success at the OUTSET is imperative. Failure at first is apt to dampen the energy of all future attempts, whereas past experience of success nerves one to future vigor. It is surprising how soon a desire will die of inanition if it be NEVER fed. "A third maxim may be added to ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake
... of these projects did not dampen the zeal of the advocates of higher education. In 1773 we find William Eddis, Surveyor of Customs at Annapolis, writing that the Legislature of the Province had determined to fit up Governor Bladen's mansion and "to endow and form a college for the education of youth in every liberal and useful ...
— The History Of University Education In Maryland • Bernard Christian Steiner


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