Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
- 2transitive verb
To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
- 3intransitive verb
To become damp; to deaden.
- 4verb
make moist
"The dew moistened the meadows"
- 5verb
lessen in force or effect
"soften a shock"
"break a fall"
- 6verb
check; keep in check (a fire)
- 7verb
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
"muffle the message"
- 8verb
smother or suppress
"Stifle your curiosity"
Synonyms
- 9verb
reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
- 10verb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
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