Definitions for damps

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damps damp

Spelling: [damp]

IPA: /dæmp/

Damps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in damps (admps).

Definitions for damps

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 damps

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