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hiljentää
heikentää
kostea
hillitä
Being in a state between dry and wet; (l) (l); (l).
w:Virgil Virgil, The Aeneid (transl. w:John Dryden|John Dryden), s:Aeneid (Dryden)/Book VI|Book VI:
- O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear
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The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.
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The paint is still damp, so please dont touch it.''
puhekieltä (l); (l), (l)
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 522-3:
- All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp.
moisture Moisture; humidity; dampness.
puhekieltä Fog; fogginess; vapor.
Milton
- Night (..) with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
puhekieltä Dejection or depression.
Joseph Addison
- Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, / A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
J. D. Forbes
- It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.
puhekieltä A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
puhekieltä To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet
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to damp cloth
puhekieltä 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.
1857, (w), Little Dorrit Book 1 Chapter 34
- My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance of its people.
puhekieltä To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
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To damp your tender hopes - w:Mark Akenside|Mark Akenside
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Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug - w:Francis Bacon|Francis Bacon
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How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! - w:Sir John Lubbock|Sir John Lubbock
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The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. - w:Thomas Babington Macaulay|Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Hollow rollers damp vibration. - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3238/is_200004/ai_n7935204
steam
(imperative of)
vapour (UK), vapor (US)
(nl-verb form of)
vapour (UK), vapor (US)
(sv-verb-form-past)
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