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dampingverbpresent participle of damp to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitalityrefused to let the setbacks damp his drive for success castrating, dampening, 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 to make or become slightly or moderately wetdamp the shirt slightly before ironing it bedewing, dampening, 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 feelingnothing seemed to damp the unwelcome attentions of her suitor benumbing, blunting, cauterizing, dampening, 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 |