Usually means: Reduce, lessen, or deaden intensity.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dampen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dampen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dampen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dampen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dampen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dampen, dampen: Wordnik
  7. dampen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dampen: Wiktionary
  9. dampen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dampen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dampen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dampen, dampen: Dictionary.com
  13. dampen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dampen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dampen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dampen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dampen: Rhymezone
  18. Dampen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dampen: Free Dictionary
  20. dampen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dampen: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. dampen: Legal dictionary

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  1. dampen: Encyclopedia

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  1. dampen: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dampened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
verb:  (intransitive) To become damp or moist.
verb:  (transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
verb:  (transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
verb:  (intransitive) To become damped or deadened.

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