英:['dæmpɪʃ]
美:['dæmpɪʃ]
英:['dæmpɪʃ]
美:['dæmpɪʃ]
noun
a noxious gas compare black damp, firedamp
moisture:
humidity, dampness
archaic fog, mist
discouragement, check
archaic depression, dejection
verb
transitive verb
to affect with or as if with a noxious gas : choke
to diminish the activity or intensity of liquid damps out compass oscillations
damping down the causes of inflation
to check the vibration or oscillation of (something, such as a string or a voltage)
dampen
intransitive verb
to diminish progressively in vibration or oscillation
adjective
archaic being confused, bewildered, or shocked : stupefied
depressed, dull
slightly or moderately wet : moistalso: humid damp weather
a damp towel
Noun Middle English, black damp, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, vapor; akin to Old High German damph vapor
The first known use of damp was in the 14th century
dangleverb
to hang loosely especially with a swinging motion
to be left without proper grammatical connection in a sentence
a dangling participle
to cause to dangle : swing
Danenoun
a person born or living in Denmark
a person of Danish ancestry
dandleverb
to move up and down in one's arms or on one's knee in affectionate play
pamper, pet
damp1 of 3noun
a harmful gas especially in a coal mine
moisture, humidity
discouragement sense 2
damp2 of 3verb
dampen
damp3 of 3adjective
slightly wet
1 Sitting at a café in New Haven, he is layered in chamois cloth shirts for the cold and wearing a knitted wool hat for the damp.
2 Some negatives require a special treatment, and both printing and development must be altered, while for a very dense negative the paper may be left out in a dampish room for some time.
3 Something with a dampish, spongy tip, probably one of the grape-red tentacles he had glimpsed, prodded his shoulder.
4 I was to have spent a few days there, but Wynberg is cold at night and dampish, so I declined that.
5 Well, there was three lives in danger that time, him, and me, and Miss Selincourt, and I dare say your sister got dampish at the feet.
6 Yes, the tree, perhaps, does make the place a little dampish….
7 Scrambling through hedges, constant walking over stony ways, beds on dampish soil--these things told upon his garments; they soon began to drop away from him in shreds.
8 It was a dampish night, and we walked on greasy mud.
9 These ant-hills, I am persuaded, supply a foundation to certain tufts of low trees which spring up in dampish places where the spring fires have less sweep.
10 It succeeds well in rich, dampish loam, and as a shrub for standing alone in any conspicuous position it has, indeed, few equals.
11 When I went home for dinner yesterday noon I give you my word my clothes was kind of dampish even then.
12 Her forehead was damp with perspiration.
13 His hands were damped with sweat.
14 At once she felt giddy, even the cold, dampish sheets on her bed seemed to smell of chipre.
15 "Aye, it's a bit dampish," said Dixon, as he brought a couple more logs to replenish a fire that seemed to have no heart for burning.
16 If the paper is left in a dampish room for fifteen minutes, it should be sufficient.
17 From the bottom we went on in a dampish sort of a passage, gloomily lit up with one candle.
18 She thrust a warm, dampish letter into his hand as the train moved.
19 It likes good, rich, dampish soil, and delights to grow in a quiet, shady nook, or even beneath the spread of our larger forest trees.
20 Why, true, sir, one man can't live in a dozen places all at once, but why not work round 'em in turn, beginning, say, at your imposing Venetian palazzo—canals, sir, gondoleers—picturesque though dampish?