| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Dampen.[Websters]
2. To have quelled, stifled, suppressed or alleviated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be repressed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have choked, smothered, suffocated, strangled or deafened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be chastened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be palatalized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have softened, reduced, amortized or amortised. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have appeased, salved or satisfied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be enfeebled or debilitated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be dejected or dispirited.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb dampen.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dampen) | 1. Smother or suppress.[Wordnet]. 2. Make moist.[Wordnet]. 3. Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.[Wordnet]. 4. Reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves).[Wordnet]. 5. Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible.[Wordnet]. 6. Check; keep in check (a fire).[Wordnet]. 7. Lessen in force or effect.[Wordnet]. 8. Make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows".[Wordnet]. 9. To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.[Websters]. 10. To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.[Websters]. 11. To become damp; to deaden.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: dampening, dampened, dampens, dampener, dampeners, dampeningly and dampenedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being repressed.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being palatalized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being slaked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being wet, moist, soppy, humid or watery. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being dejected, dispirited or depressed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"DAMPENED" is a common misspelling or typo for: dampener. |
Date "DAMPENED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
