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Reduce, as enthusiasm
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dampen
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. 2 (context transitive English) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. 3 (context intransitive English) To become damp; to deaden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "to dull or deaden" (of force, enthusiasm, ardor, etc.), from damp (adj.) + -en (1). Meaning "to moisten" is recorded from 1827. Related: Dampened ; dampening .
Usage examples of dampen.
It is particularly important to refrain from making unfavourable remarks or statements concerning the friends and the loved ones of God, inasmuch as any expression of grievance, of complaint or backbiting is incompatible with the requirements of unity and harmony and would dampen the spirit of love, fellowship and nobility.
Before the ink could dampen and run, I refolded the parchment and tucked it inside my breastband, next to my heart.
I thought the cryptogamic soils in the storm start-up zones would have dampened them, or even stopped them.
I saw Luscinda immediately, my desires were rekindled, though they had not been dead or dampened, and, to my sorrow, I spoke of them to Don Fernando, because it seemed to me that, given the great friendship he had shown me, I ought not hide anything from him.
He allowed himself the smallest of grins as he realized her presence would have a dampening effect on Rala should she try her seduction tactics again.
Cilean dampened fabric piece and applied it on the forehead of Jura -.
The heat of the day was just beginning to take hold, but sweat was beading up on his face and already dampening his smallclothes and shirt.
ALIGHT, MISTY RAIN DAMPENS the streets of Szczecin as Lucy nears the Radisson Hotel.
Felicity found this dampening of ducal antecedents not at all to her liking.
Later attempts were simply brushed aside, and the bracelets provided a dampening effect on violent thoughts and actions.
If Cadmus off-Droad thought that the assertion of his claims would excite only a nominal response, the immediate convergence of the Droad kindred upon Droad House must have come as a dampening surprise.
Virtually all of the originally pro-Tampy crewers had had their enthusiasm toward the aliens dampened, to one degree or another, while at the same time every single one of the anti-Tampies had had their prejudices strengthened.
The clashing hobnails and rattling equipment of running soldiers echoed because there was none of the usual city noise to blur and dampen it.
ODESSA FILE 247 sweat, dampening the cloth of the neckties and making them even tighter around his fat wrists.
A few flames flickered bright above the unscathed ramparts, then, dampened by the squalls, disappeared.