Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to damp
Participle: damped
Gerund: damping
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | damp |
| you | damp |
| he;she;it | damps |
| we | damp |
| you | damp |
| they | damp |
Perfect
| I | have damped |
| you | have damped |
| he;she;it | has damped |
| we | have damped |
| you | have damped |
| they | have damped |
Past
| I | damped |
| you | damped |
| he;she;it | damped |
| we | damped |
| you | damped |
| they | damped |
Pluperfect
| I | had damped |
| you | had damped |
| he;she;it | had damped |
| we | had damped |
| you | had damped |
| they | had damped |
Future
| I | will damp |
| you | will damp |
| he;she;it | will damp |
| we | will damp |
| you | will damp |
| they | will damp |
Future Perfect
| I | will have damped |
| you | will have damped |
| he;she;it | will have damped |
| we | will have damped |
| you | will have damped |
| they | will have damped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | damp |
| you | damp |
| he;she;it | damp |
| we | damp |
| you | damp |
| they | damp |
Perfect
| I | have damped |
| you | have damped |
| he;she;it | have damped |
| we | have damped |
| you | have damped |
| they | have damped |
Imperfect
| I | damped |
| you | damped |
| he;she;it | damped |
| we | damped |
| you | damped |
| they | damped |
Pluperfect
| I | had damped |
| you | had damped |
| he;she;it | had damped |
| we | had damped |
| you | had damped |
| they | had damped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would damp |
| you | would damp |
| he;she;it | would damp |
| we | would damp |
| you | would damp |
| they | would damp |
Perfect
| I | would have damped |
| you | would have damped |
| he;she;it | would have damped |
| we | would have damped |
| you | would have damped |
| they | would have damped |
Imperative
| you | damp |
| we | Let's damp |
| you | damp |
Verbs conjugated like 'damp'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'damp'
amp,
camp,
dam,
damn,
dap,
dump,
lamp,
pamp,
ramp,
tamp,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- moisten
- dampen, humidify, wet
- slow
- abate, allay, check, inhibit, moderate, restrain, retard
- stifle
- extinguish, suffocate
Antonyms
- slow
- fast, rapid, quick, sudden
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”), from Old English damp, from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
2. Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”).
Verbs referencing "damp"
Russian
дуть.
Sample Sentences
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Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations. [1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:]
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to damp cloth
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It just damps a bit, but it een't not to sey reen. [1890, Lord Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester, page 136:]
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How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! [1887, Sir John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life:]
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My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance of its people. [1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Book 1 Chapter 34”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
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The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
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I do not mean to wake the gloomy form Of superstition dress'd in wisdom's garb, To damp your tender hopes [1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination:]
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Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug [1625, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]