damp

damp is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
2. noun. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
3. noun. A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
4. superlative. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
5. superlative. Dejected; depressed; sunk.
6. noun. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
7. noun. To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
8. noun. a slight wetness

   Synonyms: dampness, moistness

9. verb. lessen in force or effect

   "soften a shock"

   "break a fall"

   Synonyms: break, dampen, soften, weaken

10. verb. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

    "muffle the message"

    Synonyms: dampen, deaden

11. verb. restrain or discourage

    "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"

12. verb. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

    Synonyms: dampen, dull, muffle, mute

13. adjective. slightly wet

    "clothes damp with perspiration"

    "a moist breeze"

    Synonyms: dampish, moist

Synonyms

dampness, moistness, break, dampen, soften, weaken, deaden, dull, muffle, mute, dampish, moist

Common word forms

damps, damped, dampen, damper, damply, dampest, damping, dampness

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