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dampeningverbpresent participle of dampen to make or become slightly or moderately wetdampen a paper towel with water and use it to clean up the mess bedewing, damping, moistening bathing, lavingdousing(also dowsing), drenching, impregnating, saturating, soaking, sousing, steeping, washing, watering, wettinghumidifyingdipping, dunking, immerging, immersingflushing, irrigating, rinsing, sluicingrefreshing, rehydrating, remoistening drying dehumidifying, dehydrating, desiccating, parching, scorching, searing to reduce or weaken in strength or feelingthe oppressive heat dampened our spirits benumbing, blunting, cauterizing, damping, deadening, dulling, numbing muffling, muting, toning (down)decreasing, diminishing, lessening, letting up (on), lowering, reducing, subduingdebilitating, enfeebling, weakeningdwindling, receding, subsiding, tapering (off), waningalleviating, easing, lighteningabating, moderating sharpening, whetting amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, consolidating, deepening, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying, redoubling, stepping up, strengtheninganimating, arousing, stimulating to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitalitynothing could dampen their enthusiasm castrating, damping, deadening, dehydrating, desiccating, devitalizing, enervating, gelding, lobotomizing, petrifying burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguing, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, weakening, wearing, wearing outdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting bracing, energizing, enlivening, invigorating, quickening, stimulating, vitalizing, vivifying arousing, rousing, stirringcharging, electrifying, galvanizingexciting, fermenting, firing, fomenting, inciting, inflaming(also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, sparking, triggering, whipping (up)abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, inspiring, liftingreactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, reenergizing(or re-energizing), refreshing, regenerating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving |