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dampen

Verbs

• (v) smother or suppress
  • Stifle your curiosity
  stifle,
• (v) make moist
  • The dew moistened the meadows
  moisten, wash,
• (v) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping damp, mute, tone down, muffle, dull,
• (v) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
• (v) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
  • muffle the message
  deaden, damp,
• (v) check; keep in check (a fire)
• (v) lessen in force or effect
  • soften a shock
  • break a fall
  soften, damp, weaken, break,

Synonyms

stifle moisten wash damp mute tone down muffle dull deaden soften weaken break

Antonyms

stimulate excite

Words of close approximity