damp
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- If something is damp it is somewhat wet.
- The grass was damp with dew this morning.
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- (transitive) (old, no longer used) If you damp something, you make it moderately wet.
- Synonym: moisten
- (transitive) If you damp something, you suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting such energy to other forms of energy.