Usually means: Slightly wet; not fully dry.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. damp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. damp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. damp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. damp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. damp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Damp, damp: Wordnik
  7. damp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DAMP, damp: Wiktionary
  9. damp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. damp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. damp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dAMP: Dictionary.com
  13. damp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. damp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DAMP (software bundle), DAMP, Damp (album), Damp (disambiguation), Damp (mining), Damp (structural), Damp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Damp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. damp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. damp: Rhymezone
  19. damp, damp (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. damp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. damp: Free Dictionary
  22. damp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. damp: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. damp: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. damp: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. damp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DAMP: Acronym Finder
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  3. damp: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DAMP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. damp, damp, damp, damp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. damp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See damped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
adjective:  (figuratively) Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
adjective:  Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
noun:  Moisture; humidity; dampness.
noun:  (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
noun:  (archaic) Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.
noun:  (mining, archaic or historical) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To dampen; to make moderately wet
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
verb:  (transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
noun:  A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  A surname from English.
noun:  (immunology) Initialism of damage-associated molecular pattern.
noun:  Initialism of deficits in attention, motor coordination and perception.

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