🔉 To reduce strength 💧 To make wet

to dampen

4 3.4

Make something slightly wet

verb
/ˈdæmpən/

: humedecer

Soon the oars were thunking rhythmically, and a fine salt spray dampened my face and hair.
dampened towel
dampened cloth
dampened paper

All right, I am going to go dampen my Ulta Beauty blender.

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Examples

Rub the stain with a cloth that has been dampened with hot water and detergent.

Blog text (17)
So right on top of the soil and you're going to dampen it down like so.
So I need to dampen my beauty blender.
All right, I dampened it a little.
So let's first dampen this sponge like it says and see how big it gets.
I'm going to dampen my brush so and I'm going to put on a really strong green colour.
But I'm taking some water and I'm going to dampen some of this cake liner.
You can get a kind of hydrating spray and use that to dampen your sponge.

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A light glaze of perspiration dampened her brow and upper lip by the time she leaned back.

Blog text (33)
To make the cake, first dampen the flour with a little water.

Synonyms

to wet

vsto dampen

26 1.0

To make something wet by covering it with liquid

is about slight liquid addition, not full covering or soaking

to moisten

vsto dampen

7 3.0

To make something a little wet

is the same slight liquid addition rather than heavy soaking

Antonyms

to dry

570 1.0

To become free of water or wetness

Phrasal Verbs

to dampen spirits

2 4.9

Make someone feel less happy and excited

How Wet

to saturate

55 5.2

to drench

34 3.0

wet

1 1.0

to dampen

4 3.4

to moisten

7 3.0

Surface Forms

dampen infinitive

dampened past

dampened past participle

dampening present participle

dampens third person singular

Morphology

dampen = damp (transparent) = damp + en

Standard verb formation from the adjective 'damp' with the productive suffix '-en' meaning 'to make [adjective]'.

Etymology

Dampen is built from damp ('slightly wet') and -en ('to make'), so it literally means 'to make slightly wet'.