damp

Noun · Verb · Adjective

Synonyms: dampness moistness muffle mute dull dampen tone down deaden soften weaken break dampish

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

a slight wetnessSynonyms: dampness moistness

Verb (4)

deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrappingSynonyms: muffle mute dull dampen tone down
restrain or discourage“the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere”
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible“muffle the message”Synonyms: dampen deaden
lessen in force or effect“soften a shock”“break a fall”Synonyms: dampen soften weaken break

Adjective (1)

slightly wet“clothes damp with perspiration”“a moist breeze”“eyes moist with tears”Synonyms: dampish moist

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), a. [Compar. Damper; superl. Dampest.]

1.Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid. [1913 Webster]

O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.] [1913 Webster]

All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor, steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG. dimpfen to smoke, imp. dampf.]

1.Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. [1913 Webster]

Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind. [1913 Webster]

Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.— J. D. Forbes.[1913 Webster]

3.(Mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc. [1913 Webster]

Choke damp, a damp consisting principally of carbonic acid gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

Damp sheet, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas.

Fire damp, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame. [1913 Webster]

Damp \Damp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Damped; p. pr. & vb. n. Damping.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.]

1.To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth. [1913 Webster]

2.To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage. "To damp your tender hopes." --Akenside. [1913 Webster]

Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!— Sir J. Lubbock.[1913 Webster]

The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

deoxyribonucleotide \deoxyribonucleotide\ n. an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose. Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms. The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are thymidine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated TMP), deoxyadenosine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated dAMP), deoxyguanosine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated dGMP), and deoxycytidine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated dCMP). [PJC]