damp

Meaning

1. In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
2. Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
3. Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.

moist

dampish

become wet

make damp

covered in

adj 5 & 9 soft

inoisture

dampy

slightly wet

black damp

suffocating damp

amplitude contraction

discouragment

damping down

devitalize,

banking-up

fire damp

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dæmp/

From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.