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What does dampen mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dampen? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
  2. (transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
  3. (intransitive) To become damp; to deaden.
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I always knew Matthew Sweet could write rings around them, but I didn't realize just how much those lamebrains would dampen his gifts.
Drunken yobbery resulted in 30 people being arrested and will have done little to dampen such concerns.
Scientists also suspect that air pollutants might dampen the growth of alveoli, tiny air sacs in the lungs.
Manchester United's Christmas knees-up turned into a real bash as scuffles threatened to dampen the party atmosphere.
But the rain lashing down did not dampen their spirits as they went in search of a goal to prolong their World Cup dream.
A pool of silver-haired jobbers would, he said, help to dampen the rise in the value of quotations because of demand outstripping supply.

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