Definitions for damper

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damper damp·er

Spelling: [dam-per]

IPA: /ˈdæm pər/

Damper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in damper (adempr).

Definitions for damper

noun

1. a person or thing that damps or depresses:
2. a movable plate for regulating the draft in a stove, furnace, etc.
3. Music. a device in stringed keyboard instruments to deaden the vibration of the strings. the mute of a brass instrument, as a horn.
4. Electricity. an attachment to keep the indicator of a measuring instrument from oscillating excessively, as a set of vanes in a fluid or a short-circuited winding in a magnetic field.
5. Machinery. a shock absorber.
6. Australian. a round, flat cake made of flour and water, and cooked over a campfire. the dough for such cakes.
7. moisture; humidity; moist air:
8. a noxious or stifling vapor or gas, especially in a mine.
9. depression of spirits; dejection.
10. 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 damper

First recorded in 1740-50; damp + -er¹

Examples for damper

She did not seem frightened, and ate readily the damper and sugar given her.

She rose, took her stockings over to the stove, and hung them on the damper.

The damper in the lower door had a bad habit of opening when it was jarred.

Finished our bacon this morning, and for the future will only have damper and tea.

The rain here in Tampa, though not yet at tropical-storm levels, has put a damper on the now delayed convention.

Leno said he felt the same as he try to put a damper on any such talk at a post-roast press conference.

The white men were rushed upon while making a damper, and clubbed and speared.

Changes in the level of subsidies and feed-in tariffs can put a damper on activity.

There was, as we have said, nothing to throw a damper on the general joy.

We took out the damper and poked out all the soot and ashes.