damp

Etymology
From. Akin to Low German, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and to 🇨🇬 imperative of. Also. Ultimately all descend from.

Adjective

 * 1) In a state between dry and wet;  ;.
 * 2) * 25 January 2017, Leena Camadoo writing in , Dominican banana producers at sharp end of climate change
 * Once the farms have been drained and the dead plants have been cut down and cleared, farmers then have to be alert for signs of black sigatoka, a devastating fungus which flourishes in damp conditions and can destroy banana farms.
 * 1)  Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
 * 2) * 27 July 2016, Jane O’Faherty in The , Monarchs and prison officers win big on second race day
 * Though Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were few damp spirits in Galway on day two of the races.
 * 1) Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
 * 1) * 27 July 2016, Jane O’Faherty in The , Monarchs and prison officers win big on second race day
 * Though Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were few damp spirits in Galway on day two of the races.
 * 1) Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
 * 1) Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.

Usage notes
Damp commonly is used for disagreeable conditions and moist often is used for agreeable conditions:

Synonyms

 * , / ; see also Thesaurus:wet
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:sad

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: مبلول
 * Atayal: msmiy
 * Belarusian: вільготны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malseketa
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: umid
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ნოტიო, ნესტიანი, ტენიანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πλαδαρός
 * Iban: embap
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: nepsiä, nahkia
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 湿っぽい,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نِماوی, نمدار, شێدار
 * Latin: ūvidus
 * Latvian: mitrs, mikls, valgans, valgs
 * Lithuanian: drėgnas
 * Macedonian: вла́жен
 * Malay:
 * Middle English: moiste
 * Norman: mucre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fuktig
 * Ottoman Turkish: یاش, اصلاق; صولاق
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: vlhký
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: сирий
 * Vietnamese:
 * ǃXóõ: ǁn̥âʻm


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: по́тиснат

Noun

 * 1) Moisture; humidity; dampness.
 * 2)  Fog; fogginess; vapor.
 * 3)  Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.
 * 4) * 1728, George Carleton (attributed to ), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p.72,
 * But though the War was proclaim’d, and Preparations accordingly made for it, the Expectations from all receiv’d a sudden Damp, by the as sudden Death of King William.
 * 1) * 1866,, letter to A. Wills dated 2January, 1866, in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p.429,
 * I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion
 * 1)  A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
 * 1)  Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.
 * 2) * 1728, George Carleton (attributed to ), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p.72,
 * But though the War was proclaim’d, and Preparations accordingly made for it, the Expectations from all receiv’d a sudden Damp, by the as sudden Death of King William.
 * 1) * 1866,, letter to A. Wills dated 2January, 1866, in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p.429,
 * I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion
 * 1)  A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
 * 1) * 1866,, letter to A. Wills dated 2January, 1866, in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p.429,
 * I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion
 * 1)  A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
 * 1) * 1866,, letter to A. Wills dated 2January, 1866, in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p.429,
 * I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion
 * 1)  A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.

Translations

 * Arabic: رُطُوبة
 * Belarusian: вільготнасць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic: raki
 * Irish: taisleach
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نم, شێ
 * Macedonian: вла́га, вла́жност
 * Middle English: moistnes
 * Norman: mucreu
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: vlhkosť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: nem, rutubet
 * Ukrainian: волога, вологість


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Greek:


 * Bulgarian: рудничен газ
 * Finnish: kaivoskaasu
 * French:
 * Greek: νοτίδα
 * Italian: grisù
 * Macedonian: ру́днички гас

Verb

 * 1)  To dampen; to make moderately wet
 * 2)  To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
 * 3)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * 1)  To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
 * 2)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * 1)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * 1)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * 1)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * 1)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
 * 1)  To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: whakanoti
 * Slovak: udusiť


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Esperanto: amortizi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Old English:

Etymology
From (compare, ), eventually from.

Noun

 * 1) steam

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) vapour (UK), vapor (US)

Etymology 1
From (compare, ).

Noun

 * 1) steam
 * 2) vapour (UK), vapor (US)

Etymology
From (compare, ).

Noun

 * 1) steam
 * 2) vapour (UK), vapor (US)

Etymology
From "deficits in attention, motor control, and perception."

Noun

 * 1) DAMP (a controversial psychiatric diagnosis made mainly in Sweden and Denmark, now abolished, similar to ADHD)
 * 2)  hyperactivity, going crazy, etc.