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dampen

English

  1. 🔊 lessen in force or effect
    “soften a shock”
  2. 🔊 check
  3. 🔊 make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
    “muffle the message”
  4. 🔊 reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
  5. 🔊 suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
    “Stifle your curiosity”
  6. 🔊 make moist
    “The dew moistened the meadows”
  7. 🔊 deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

Spanish

  1. 🔊 humectar to dampen
  2. 🔊 humedecer to dampen, moisten, wet, humidify

Similar words

moisten wash damp soften weaken break deaden damp stifle muffle mute dull damp tone down abate abridge absorb the shock allay alleviate arrest asperge assuage attemper attenuate