Synonyms for dampening
damp·en·ing

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1. moistening, dampeningnoun

   the act of making something slightly wet

   Synonyms:
   moistening

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1. • Wetting

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1. Joseph Brusuelas:

   The delegation of addressing the pandemic to the states, and what can fairly be described as the abdication of any responsibility for the pandemic on the part of the federal government, have contributed to a debilitating sense of policy uncertainty that is dampening economic activity.

2. Han Dong-ho:

   Intelligence has stepped up monitoring (of phone calls) on border passages, dampening brokers' activities, the more dangerous, the more expensive. Many connections with brokers, which North Koreans call 'lines', have been lost.

3. Eugenie Bouchard:

   I'm kind of a last-minute person, so I'm going to make a decision next week, I guess, the week before( the Olympics), it's just unfortunate because it would be my first Olympic Games, and to have a problem like this( Zika) kind of dampening the excitement of, potentially, your first Olympic Games, it really sucks, to be honest.

4. Daniel Fry:

   I think he’s doing things a lot different from a number of other politicians, i would say what he’s doing hasn’t been done before and it’s kinda needed in this whole politically correct society – which I think is one of the things that is really dampening and ruining our country from the inside.

5. Jessica Davis:

   For some individuals this may have a dampening effect ... However, there are probably some hard-core members who will be further radicalized by this.