Definitions for damp

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Spelling: [damp]

IPA: /dæmp/

Damp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in damp (admp).

Definitions for damp

noun

1. moisture; humidity; moist air:
2. a noxious or stifling vapor or gas, especially in a mine.
3. depression of spirits; dejection.
4. a restraining or discouraging force or factor.

adjective

1. slightly wet; moist:
2. unenthusiastic; dejected; depressed:

Verb phrases

1. damp off, to undergo damping-off.

verb (used with object)

1. to make damp; moisten.
2. to check or retard the energy, action, etc., of; deaden; dampen:
3. to stifle or suffocate; extinguish:
4. Acoustics, Music. to check or retard the action of (a vibrating string); dull; deaden.
5. Physics. to cause a decrease in amplitude of (successive oscillations or waves).

Origin of damp

1300-50; Middle English (in sense of def. 4); compare Middle Dutch damp, Middle High German dampf vapor, smoke

Examples for damp

The damp snow packed on Blondey's hoofs, so that he was walking on snowballs.

He passed his hand across his damp forehead, for he felt faint with dread.

It insists on efficiency standards for household appliances so that your towels come out of the dryer refreshingly cool and damp.

With me tagging along, they dove into a rudimentary, damp shelter they had dug in a wood nearby.

The elevator descended with a draft," he writes, "chilling Ethel in all the damp spots.

In damp weather it is sometimes difficult to get the froth stiff.

Outside a late-autumn storm was building and the air in the room was damp.

The damp, gray Beaver State is attracting the most incoming movers of any other state, according to a new survey.

Dick, vaguely conscious of damp and dirt, went up to his bedroom.

They were putting on outer clothes from the store-room to protect them from the dirt and damp.