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bedamp

verb

Etymology

From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.

  1. derived from *dampaz✻
  2. derived from dampen
  3. inherited from dampen — “to stifle; suffocate”
  4. formed as bedamp — “be- + damp”

Definitions

  1. To cover with dampness

    To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.

    • Before I reached our lodgings, the dusk settled into streets, and a mist bedewed and bedamped me and I went astray, as is usual with me, and had to inquire my way; […]
    • Nor is it sense to prostitute the kirk With pleas of faith in God for business weal, When lack of enterprise bedamps your zeal.
    • “Hallowed is the gleet that bedamps the repentant's nerve - sacred is the golden channel spurting from the kindness of liberty's expiring worldbeater - […]”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA