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damp

  [damp] adjective, -er, -est, noun, verb
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–adjective
1. slightly wet; moist: damp weather; a damp towel.
2. unenthusiastic; dejected; depressed: The welcoming committee gave them a rather damp reception.
–noun
3. moisture; humidity; moist air: damp that goes through your warmest clothes.
4. a noxious or stifling vapor or gas, esp. in a mine.
5. depression of spirits; dejection.
6. a restraining or discouraging force or factor.
–verb (used with object)
7. to make damp; moisten.
8. to check or retard the energy, action, etc., of; deaden; dampen: A series of failures damped her enthusiasm.
9. to stifle or suffocate; extinguish: to damp a furnace.
10. Acoustics, Music. to check or retard the action of (a vibrating string); dull; deaden.
11. Physics. to cause a decrease in amplitude of (successive oscillations or waves).
—Verb phrase
12. damp off, to undergo damping-off.
Origin:
1300–50; ME (in sense of def. 4); cf. MD damp, MHG dampf vapor, smoke

Related forms:
dampish, adjective
damp⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
damp⋅ish⋅ness, noun
damply, adverb
dampness, noun

Synonyms:
1. dank, steamy. Damp, humid, moist mean slightly wet. Damp usually implies slight and extraneous wetness, generally undesirable or unpleasant unless the result of intention: a damp cellar; to put a damp cloth on a patient's forehead. Humid is applied to unpleasant dampness in the air: The air is oppressively humid today. Moist denotes something that is slightly wet, naturally or properly: moist ground; moist leather. 3. dankness, dampness, fog, vapor. 7. humidify. 8. slow, inhibit, restrain, moderate, abate.

Antonyms:
1. dry.
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Word Origin & History

damp 
attested from 1316, probably in O.E., but no record of it. If not, probably from M.L.G. damp; ult. from P.Gmc. *dampaz. Originally "a noxious vapor;" sense of "moisture" is first attested 1706. Damper of a piano is from 1783; of a chimney, 1788; either or both of which led to various fig. senses.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: damp
Pronunciation: 'damp
Function: noun
: a noxious or stifling gas or vapor; especially : one occurring in coal mines—usually used in plural; —see BLACK DAMP, FIREDAMP
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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