dampen

dampen is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
2. transitive verb. To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
3. intransitive verb. To become damp; to deaden.
4. verb. make moist

   "The dew moistened the meadows"

   Synonyms: moisten, wash

5. verb. lessen in force or effect

   "soften a shock"

   "break a fall"

   Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken

6. verb. check; keep in check (a fire)
7. verb. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

   "muffle the message"

   Synonyms: damp, deaden

8. verb. smother or suppress

   "Stifle your curiosity"

   Synonyms: stifle

9. verb. reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
10. verb. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

    Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute

Synonyms

moisten, wash, break, damp, soften, weaken, deaden, stifle, dull, muffle, mute

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dampen:

dampne, madnep

Common word forms

dampens, dampened, dampener, dampening

Words from these letters

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