dampening

Examples

• All

• Before applying the adhesive, ensure proper dampening of the surfaces.

• There seems to be some sort of dampening field in here.

  Star Trek: Generations (1994)

• There appears to be a dampening field in operation.

  Star Trek: Generations (1994)

• Great for sound dampening, great for lighting, great for video.

• There is a rubber dampening piece around it.

  Blog text (22)

• Now you're ready to put some dampening material inside the kick.

• There's a dampening field in place on this deck.

  Fiction book (1994)

• I thought about removing the plate and putting down some sort of dampening layer, then screwing the plate back on top of that.

  Blog text (16)

• The consequent dampening of the effect may be attributed to a supply-side adjustment mitigating the price effect.

  Academic text (2016)

• The gardener used a spray bottle for dampening the soil before planting seeds.

Synonyms

W

wetting

vsdampening

1 1.4

The act of making a surface wet

means making something only a little wet rather than fully soaked

M

moistening

vsdampening

1 2.3

A small act of making something slightly wet before use

has identical meaning but is a different word form

Antonyms

D

desiccation

• Specialized

2 8.6

A process that removes water from something so it becomes very dry

How Wet

saturation

4 4.7

soaking

9 2.7

wetting

1 1.4

dampening

14 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology