Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
- 2noun
Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
- 3noun
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
- 4superlative
Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
- 5superlative
Dejected; depressed; sunk.
- 6noun
To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
a slight wetness
- 9verb
lessen in force or effect
"soften a shock"
"break a fall"
- 10verb
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
"muffle the message"
- 11verb
restrain or discourage
"the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"
- 12verb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- 13adjective
slightly wet
"clothes damp with perspiration"
"a moist breeze"
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