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Definitions: Damp |
DampAdjective1. Slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears". Noun1. A slight wetness. Verb1. Deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping. 2. Restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere". 3. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible. 4. Lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "damp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | To suppress oscillations or disturbances. (references) |
Mining | Any mine gas, or mixture of gases, particularly those deficient in oxygen. Damp is probably derived from the German dampf, meaning a fog or vapor. See also:afterdamp; blackdamp; chokedamp; combustible gases; firedamp;stinkdamp; white damp. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
dAMP | Danish | Deoxyadenosin-5'-monofosfat | Medicine |
dAMP | English | Deoxyadenosine-5'-monophosphate | Medicine |
DAMP | French | Désoxyadénosine-5'-monophosphate | Medicine |
dAMP | German | 2'-Desoxy-Adenosin-5'-Monophosphat | Medicine |
DAMP | Greek | 5-μονοφωσφορική δεοξυαδενοσίνη | Medicine |
dAMP | Italian | Deossiadenosin-5'-monofosfato | Medicine |
dAMP | Spanish | Desoxiadenosina-5'-monofostato | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DampSynonyms: dampish (adj), moist (adj), dampness (n), moistness (n), break (v), dampen (v), deaden (v), dull (v), muffle (v), mute (v), soften (v), tone down (v), weaken (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: spots (publishing & graphic arts). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane. |
Dejection | Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart. |
Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits. | |
Dissuasion | Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate. |
Dullness | Render dull; Adjective: damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear. |
Hindrance | Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck. |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out. |
Moderation | Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin. |
Moisture | Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water). |
Adjective: moist, damp; watery; madid, roric; undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy; roral, rorid; roscid; juicy. | |
Refrigeration | Damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This house was always damp, even my bed was damp! (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman) So they locked him up in the basement of the courthouse till he nearly died of the damp, and his daddy brought him back home. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) And it's always the same in damp weather. (Are You Being Served?; writing credit: John T. Chapman; David Croft) | |
Lyrics | I turned my collar to the cold and damp ("Sounds of Silence"; performing artist: Simon & Garfunkel) | |
Clever | Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rising Damp (1974) One Damp Day (1917) Dry Goods and Damp Deeds (1917) Rising Damp (1980) | |
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| Thundering; bitter; blowy; blustering; blustering; blustery; boisterous; cold; coming down; damp; dirty; foul; frigid; furious; gusty; howling; menacing; murky; pouring; raging; rainy; rip-roaring; roaring; savage; squally; stormful; storming; tempestuous. | Storming; treacherous; bitter; blowy; blustering; blustering; blustery; boisterous; cold; coming down; damp; dirty; foul; frigid; furious; gusty; howling; menacing; murky; pouring; raging; rainy; rip-roaring; roaring; savage; squally; stormful; storming; . | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He did not suppose they could be damp now, in the middle of the day. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the wind freshened every moment. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was the way a rat felt, slimy and damp and cold. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She found her damp cloth and wiped the counter with circular sweeps. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Dusting with a damp cloth or oiled mop should be done frequently. (references) | |
If not, you may be able to hold a warm, damp washcloth over the urethral opening. (references) | ||
Once everything is wet, take up contaminated materials with a damp towel, then mop or sponge the area with disinfectant. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | Climate: Arid in north, Mediterranean in the central portion, cool and damp in south. (references) |
Latvia | About 98% of the country lies under 200m elevation (640 ft.). The damp climate resembles New England's. (references) | |
Iceland | Because of the Gulf Stream's moderating influence, the climate is characterized by damp, cool summers and relatively mild but windy winters. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guyana | Some such jails are bare, overcrowded, and damp. (references) |
Poland | According to reports by nongovernmental organizations (NGO's), overcrowding, damp cells, and a lack of medical treatment are the chief problems. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Damp" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.46% of the time. "Damp" is used about 1,679 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.46% | 1,569 | 5,257 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.21% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.96% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.37% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,679 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "damp": After damp ♦ be damp ♦ become damp ♦ cast a damp over ♦ cast a damp over smth. ♦ choke damp ♦ cold and damp ♦ damage caused by damp ♦ damp air ♦ damp and chilly ♦ damp cloth ♦ damp clothes ♦ damp course ♦ damp down ♦ damp down a fire ♦ damp mop ♦ damp off ♦ damp proof ♦ Damp sheet ♦ damp smb.'s ardour ♦ damp squib ♦ damp stain ♦ damp the spirits ♦ damp wipe ♦ Death damp ♦ Fire damp ♦ get damp ♦ make damp ♦ rising damp ♦ strike a damp over smth. ♦ wet with damp ♦ white damp. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "damp": damp-down, damp-eyed, damp-living, damp-proof, damp-proofed, damp-proofers, damp-proofing, damp-protecting, damp-smelling, damp-squib, damp-stained, damp-trousered. | |
Ending with "damp": still-damp. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
damp | 69 |
damp basement | 43 |
damp proofing | 42 |
damp rid | 42 |
rising damp | 24 |
damp pantie | 22 |
damp specialist timber | 7 |
damp proofing uk | 6 |
damp check | 5 |
salt damp | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "damp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lagështi (dampness, humidity, moisture, wetness), brengos (chill, deject, depress, grieve, sadden), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop), gaz miniere (coal gas, fire-damp), i lagësht (dank, humid, moist, sloppy, sour, squashy, steamy, wet), i lagët (humid, moist, outlying, poachy, raw, wet), i lagur (awash, dabby, soggy, sopping, soppy, wet), brengë (grief, oppression, sadness, sorrow), lag (dabble, dampen, douse, drench, get wet, moisten, soak, souse, wash, wet), trishtim (doldrums, gloom, low spirits, melancholy, misery, mope, sadness), mjegull (brume, curtain, exhalation, fog, mist, smog, toman, vapor, vapour), njomje (maceration, moistening, saturation, soaking, souse, treatment), pakësoj amplitudën e lëkundeve, pikëlloj (afflict, depress, distress, sadden), shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shuaj një tingull, spërkat (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), i njomë (dabby, dampish, dampy, dank, delicate, dewy, fresh, humid, milch, moist, muggy, new, poachy, sappy, saturated, wet, young). (various references) | |
Arabic | كآبة (bleakness, dejection, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sadness, sombreness, sorrow, spleen), كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), مبلل (moist, wet, wetted), وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), سم (bane, poison, pore, venom), خنق بغاز سام, جعله كئيبا, أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scotch, scuttle, torpedo), ثبط (chill, dampen, demoralize, frustrate, inhibit, inhibition, repel), رطب (clammy, dabble, dabby, dampen, dank, foul, humid, humidify, moist, moisten, refresh, soggy, sour, watery, wet), بلل (bathe, bedew, dabble, dampness, drench, moisten, moistening, soaking, sodden, wet, wetness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | влажен (dank, humid, juicy, madid, moist, plashy, raw, soft, soggy, sticky, watery, wet), попарвам (blight, frost, infuse, kill, nip, perish, scald, steam, touch, wither), задушавам (asphyxiate, braise, choke, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, smother, stew, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), мъглив (brumous, dull, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, thick, vaporous, vapory, vapoury), намалям, намокрям (drench, moisten, slosh, wet), обезсърчавам (dampen, daunt, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, pour cold water on), изпарения (emanation, vapor, vapour), охлаждам (chill, condense, cool, dash, freeze, ice, nip, quench, refrigerate), угнетявам (depress, oppress), влажност (dampness, humidity, moisture, wet), влага (dampness, humidity, moisture, wet), въгледвуокис, рудничен газ (choke damp, firedamp), униние (dejection, despond, despondency, doldrums, droop, dullness, mopes, sadness), угнетеност (depression, oppression, prostration), овлажнявам (dampen, moisten). (various references) | |
Catalan | humit (humid, moist). (various references) | |
Chinese | 溽 (muggy), 潮湿 (humid, moist), 潮濕 (moist), 潮 (current, humid, moist, tide), 浥 (moist). (various references) | |
Czech | vlhký (clammy, humid, moist, running, sticky, watery, wet), mokrý (pluvious, rainy, soggy, wet). (various references) | |
Danish | deoxyadenosin-5'-monofosfat (deoxyadenosine-5'-monophosphate, deoxyadenylate), dAMP (deoxyadenosine-5'-monophosphate, deoxyadenylate, steam, vapor, vapour), væde (dampness, moisture), fugtpletter (foxing, spots), fugtighed (dampness, humidity, moisture), fugte (killing the suction, wet), fugt (dampness, humidity, moisture, mustiness), befugte (humidify, steeping, wet). (various references) | |
Dutch | vochtigheid (dampness, humidity, moisture, mustiness), vochtig (humid, moist). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malsekeco, malsekaĵo, humideco, humida (humid, moist). (various references) | |
Faeroese | væta (wet), slevja, slagin (humid, moist), rái. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرطوب ساختن (Humidify), نم (Humid, Humidity, Moisture), حالت خفقان پیداکردن , رطوبت (Humidity, Moisture, Wet), دلمرده کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | deoksiadenosiini-5'-monofosfaatti (deoxyadenosine-5'-monophosphate, deoxyadenylate), märkyys (dampness, moisture, wetness), kosteus (dampness, humidity, moisture, moisture content, moisture percentage, water content). (various references) | |
French | mouiller (dabble), humide (dabby, dank). (various references) | |
Frisian | dampens. (various references) | |
German | dämpfen (ageing, attenuate, baffle, break, cushion, deaden, dilute, dim, extenuate, extinguish, mellow, muffle, mute, put out, quench, reduce, soften, softening, steam, stew, subdue, to baffle, to extenuate, to mute, to steam, to stew, to vaporize, weaken), feuchtigkeit (clamminess, dampness, dankness, humidification, humidity, moistness, moisture, sogginess, sweatiness, wet, wetness), feucht (damply, dank, dankly, dewy, drizzly, humid, humide, humidly, moist, moistly, moisty, soggy, sticky, sweaty, wet). (various references) | |
Greek | υγραίνω (condition, dabble, dampen, humidify, moisten, wet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחות (be confounded, be dismayed, be shattered, be terrified, humidity, moisture, sap, sweat), לח (humid, liquid, moist, moisty, soggy), טחוב (dank, humid, moist, musty), רטוב (humid, moist, moisty, muggy, wet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyirkosság (clamminess, dampness, humidity, moist, moistness, moisture, ooze, sweat), nyirkos (clammy, dank, humid, moist, muggy, oozy, raw, soggy), lehangoltság (blues, dejectedness, depression, distemper, gloom, gloominess, oppression), dohos (frouzy, frowzy, fusty, moldy, mouldy, musty, stuffy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membasahkuyupi (fresh, remunerative, soak), membasahi (dampen, moisten), lengas (clammy, humid, moist, moisture), lembab (damply, dank, humid, indolent, moist), anyep (bland not salty, clammy). (various references) | |
Irish | tais. (various references) | |
Italian | umido (dank, dewily, humid, humide, misty, moist, sloppy, soggily, soggy, wet), bagnare (bathe, dabble, dampen, dip, flow through, get wet, irrigate, lave, moisten, soak, sprinkle, steep, sweat, wash, water, wet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 潤い (gain, moisture, profit, wetness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しめった (moist, wet), しめっぽい (gloomy), うるおい (gain, moisture, profit, wetness), じめじめした . (various references) | |
Korean | 습기 (Dampness, moisture). (various references) | |
Manx | tashtaghey, tashid (humidity, moisture, vapour concentration, wetness), tash (clammy, dank, humid, moist, soft, soggy, sweating), mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off), meayllaghey (bald, bare, depilate, depilation, flatten, put back). (various references) | |
Norwegian | klam (clammy), fuktig (clammy, humid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | umidade (humiliate, moisture). (various references) | |
Romanian | descuraja (beat down, bring low, cast down, chill, dash, daunt, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), descurajare (dejection, despondency, discouragement, lowness), domoli elanul, potoli elanul, abur (breath, breathing, breeze, exhalation, fog, fume, haze, reek, smoke, smother, steam, vapor, vapour), aburealã (exhalation, fume, reek, steam, vapor, vapour), amortiza (absorb, amortize, break, cushion, deaden, extinguish, liquidate, pay off, redeem), bea un pãhãrel, chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), gaz de minã (fire-damp), glacial (chill, chilly, cold, frigid, frigidly, frosty, gelid, glacial, icily, icy), igrasios (humid), înãbuşi un foc, jilav (dampy, humid, moist, wet), umiditate (humidity, moisture, rawness, wet), rãci (catch a chill, catch cold, chill, cool, quench, refrigerate), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), slãbi presiunea, stinge focul, stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water), tristeţe (blue, dejection, depression, dullness, gloom, heaviness, melancholy, mourning, sadness), ud (humid, moist, soaked, sodden, soggy, wet), uda (bedew, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), umed (boggy, dank, humid, juicy, moist, soft, soggy, wet), umezealã (clamminess, dampness, humidity, moistness, moisture, wet), umezi (dabble, humidify, moisten, soak, wet), jilãvi (wet). (various references) | |
Russian | сырость (dampness, humidity, moisture, sogginess, wetness), сырой (crude, dabby, dank, green, humid, madid, moist, muggy, poachy, raw, sodden, soggy, unboiled, uncooked, wet), угнетать (depress, dispirite, grind, oppress, press upon, weigh down), уныние (black dog, blue devils, dejection, depression, despondency, discouragement, doldrums, dumps, gloom, low spirits, megrims, melancholy, sadness), смягчать (assuage, attenuate, commute, extenuate, mellow, melt, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palatalize, palliate, relax, remit, soft pedal, soften, subdue, tone down), смочить (moisten), смачивать (humect, madefy, moisten, wash, water), тормозить (brake, hamper, lock, skid, slow down), влажный (dank, dewy, humid, madid, moist, muggy, poachy, steamy, wet), обескураживать (daunt, discourage, dishearten, wet blanket, wet-blanket), заглушать (deaden, deafen, drown, muffle, silences, silencing). (various references) | |
Scottish | tais (dank, interspersed as metal; timid, soft), bog (moist, soft, va. dip, wet), itidh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vlaga (dampness, humidity, humour, moisture), vlažan (dabby, dank, dewy, humid, moist, soggy, wet), potištenost (despondency, megrims, mopes, qualmishness), plesniv (fusty, moldy, mouldy), para (fumes, humour, steam, vapor, vapour), ovlažiti (dampen, humect, moisten), nakvasiti (dampen, get slightly wet, get wet, imbrue, liquor, macerate, moisten, wash), memljiv (fusty). (various references) | |
Spanish | humedo (humid, moist), mojar (dabble, dampen, dip, douse, drench, dunk, moisten, water, wet), humedad (dampness, humidity, moistness, moisture, mustiness, sogginess, wet, wetness), húmedo (dabby, dank, humid, humide, moist, muggy, watery, wet). (various references) | |
Swedish | fukt (dampness, moisture, sweat, wet), fuktig (dabby, dank, fresh, green, humid, moist, muggy, soggy, wet). (various references) | |
Turkish | keder (dole, dolefulness, dolor, dolour, dreariness, gloominess, grief, heartbreak, low spirits, plaintiveness, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, dejection, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry), aksatma (failure), cesaretini kırma (demoralization), gücünü azaltmak (damp down, weaken), grizu (firedamp, foul air, gas), ıslak (dank, liquid, moist, slobbery, sloppy, soppy, splashy, sticky, tacky, watery, wet), köreltmek (atrophy, blunt, damp down, dampen, dull, rust), su buharı, nem (dampness, dewiness, humidity, hygro-, moisture, wetness), nemlendirmek (dampen, humidify, moisten, moisturize), nemli (dampish, dank, dewy, humid, moist, wet), rutubet (dampness, humidity, hygro-, moistness, moisture, rawness, wet, wetness), rutubetli (clammy, dampish, dank, humid, moist, sour, sticky), söndürmek (attenuate, damp down, dampen, deflate, douse, dowse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), sindirmek (assimilate, cow, digest, Hector, overawe, soften, stand for, stomach), hararetini azaltmak (damp down, quench one's thirst). (various references) | |
Turkmen | yzgarly (humid), nemli (humid, moist), зig (moist, unripe). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вологість (clamminess, dampness, humidity, moisture, sweat, weep, wet, wetness), пригнічений (dead alive, dejected, despondent, downward, dull, heavy-laden, low-spirited, vapourish, woebegone, woeful, woesome), притупляти (benumb, deaden, dull, narcotize, opiate, quench, rebate, rust), бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn), заглушати (deaf, deafen, drown, muffle, narcotize, stifle), змочувати (dabble, drench), зупиняти (arrest, bar, cease, check, deter, halt, hold, hold up, nip, pull up, stanch, staunch, stop, withhold), нудьга (bore, boredom, distemper, dullness, ennui, insipidity, insipidness, monotony, mope, needle, tedium, yearn, yearning), послаблювати (allay, ease, reduce), вологий (chilly, dabby, dank, humid, moisturizing, oozy, poachy, waterish, wet), сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, comfortless, dark, deplorable, despondent, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, elegiac, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful, wan), вогкий (dabby, humid, raw), вогкість (humidity), туман (brume, mist, nebula, vapor, vapour), туманний (brumous, delphic, filmy, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, soupy, turbid, vaporous, vapourish, vapoury), сирий (crude, dabby, dank, moist, moisty, nebulous, poachy, raw, splashy, wet), сирість (dampness, moisture, wet, wetness), слабкість (adynamia, debilitation, faintness, laxity, vice, weakness), смуток (dejection, depression, despondency, discouragement, funk, shadow, sorrow), випивка (boose, booze, nosedive, pot, potation, wet). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự uống rượu, sự ngã lòng (depression, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment), sự nản lòng (despondency), sự ẩm ướt (dampness), ẩm thấp, ẩm ướt (dank, humid, soft), ẩm (humid), đ" uống có chất rượu. (various references) | |
Welsh | lleitho (moisten), lleithder (moisture), llaith (death, moist), gwlybyrog (rainy, wet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | moiste. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "damp": damped, dampen, dampened, dampener, dampeners, dampening, dampens, damper, dampers, dampest, damping, dampings, dampish, damply, dampness, dampnesses, damps. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "damp": firedamp. (additional references) | |
Words containing "damp": firedamps, undamped. (additional references) | |
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"Damp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Admap, da, Dacm, Dacmi, daip, Dama, damb, Damd, damm, Damo, dampe, dampf, dampi, dampt, damtp, damy, danm, daph, dapi, dapp, darp, daup, dawm, dbm, Decmpp, demp, Demphu, dhamp, dimp, Dmac, dpm, dumpl, Dwam, dxm, kamp, namp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "damp" (pronounced da"mp) |
| 3 | -a" m p | amp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, decamp, encamp, Gamp, lamp, ramp, revamp, samp, stamp, tamp, tramp, unclamp, vamp. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m-p" | |
-1 letter: amp, dam, dap, mad, map, pad, pam. | |
-2 letters: ad, am, ma, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m-p" | |
+1 letter: damps. | |
+2 letters: camped, damped, dampen, damper, damply, decamp, lampad, lamped, madcap, mapped, mudcap, palmed, pomade, ramped, tamped, vamped. | |
+3 letters: bedlamp, champed, clamped, cramped, dampens, dampers, dampest, damping, dampish, decamps, diploma, empaled, impaled, impavid, implead, lampads, madcaps, medigap, megapod, mudcaps, mudflap, mudpack, phasmid, plasmid, pomaded, pomades, premade, psalmed, pyramid, roadmap, sampled, scamped, spammed, stamped, swamped, tramped. | |
+4 letters: amidship, amphipod, bedlamps, campused, compadre, compared, dampened, dampener, dampings, dampness, decamped, diazepam, diplomas, diplomat, dopamine, dramshop, dumpcart, empanada, emplaced, emplaned, encamped, ependyma, exampled, firedamp, gazumped, hampered, headlamp, impacted, impaired, imparked, imparted, impasted, impawned, impleads, ladypalm, lampyrid, malposed, medigaps, megapode, megapods, midspace, misadapt, mispaged, misplead, moldwarp, mopboard, mudflaps, mudpacks, myriapod, napalmed, olympiad, oompahed, pachadom, pagandom, pajamaed, palmated, paludism, pampered, pandemic, paradigm, pashadom, phasmids, plasmids, plasmoid, plumaged, pomading, pomander, preadmit, prearmed, psalmody, pyoderma, pyramids, rampaged, remapped, revamped, roadmaps, stampede, stepdame, sympodia, tampered, tamponed, trampled, undamped, unmapped. | |
+5 letters: amidships, ampersand, amphipods, amplidyne, amplified, amplitude, amputated, attempted, bipyramid, clampdown, compacted, compadres, companied, comparted, compassed, compendia, comprador, dampeners, dampening, decamping, deprogram, diaphragm, diazepams, diplomacy, diplomaed, diplomata, diplomate, diplomats, dopamines, dramshops, dumpcarts, empanadas, empaneled, endoplasm, ependymas, epidermal, firedamps, galumphed, harumphed, headlamps, impainted, impaneled, impastoed, impeached, impearled, impedance, implanted, impleaded, ladypalms, lampooned, lampyrids, madrepore, megapodes, midspaces, misadapts, misparsed, misparted, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, misshaped, misspaced, moldwarps, mopboards, mudcapped, myriapods, nymphalid, olympiads, pachadoms, pachyderm, pagandoms, palladium, paludisms, pandemics, paradigms, paramedic, pashadoms, permeated, plasmodia, plasmoids, polyamide, pomanders, pompadour, preadmits, prewarmed, primordia, prodromal, programed, promenade, pyodermas, pyramidal, pyramided, ramparted, reprimand, resampled, restamped, scampered, shampooed, spasmodic, spermatid, stampeded, stampeder, stampedes, stepdames, swampland, sympodial, unclamped, wampished. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6D 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a m p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006D 0070 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38677982 |
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