damp

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

The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.

The paint is still damp, so please dont touch it.''

All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp.

Night (..) with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.

Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, / A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.

It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.

to damp cloth

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.

To damp your tender hopes - w:Mark Akenside|Mark Akenside

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

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! - w:Sir John Lubbock|Sir John Lubbock

The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. - w:Thomas Babington Macaulay|Thomas Babington Macaulay

Hollow rollers damp vibration. - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3238/is_200004/ai_n7935204