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Synonyms for dampen
ˈdæm pəndamp·en
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Princeton's WordNet
stifle, dampenverb
smother or suppress
"Stifle your curiosity"
Synonyms:
asphyxiate, muffle, stifle, mute, moisten, dull, weaken, repress, break, soften, tone down, suffocate, wash, smother, choke, deaden, damp, stranglemoisten, wash, dampenverb
make moist
"The dew moistened the meadows"
Synonyms:
rinse, dull, lave, launder, mute, muffle, moisten, wash out, stifle, weaken, drizzle, soften, lap, wash off, wash, deaden, wash away, damp, tone down, breakmuffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Synonyms:
muffle, wash, stifle, mute, pall, numb, moderate, moisten, weaken, benumb, repress, break, soften, tone down, dull, smother, blunt, deaden, damp, tame, strangledampenverb
reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
Synonyms:
stifle, mute, weaken, dull, wash, deaden, muffle, tone down, break, damp, moisten, softendampen, deaden, dampverb
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
"muffle the message"
Synonyms:
stifle, mute, weaken, dull, wash, deaden, muffle, blunt, girdle, tone down, break, damp, moisten, softendampenverb
check; keep in check (a fire)
Synonyms:
stifle, mute, weaken, dull, wash, deaden, muffle, tone down, break, damp, moisten, softendampen, damp, soften, weaken, breakverb
lessen in force or effect
"soften a shock"; "break a fall"
Synonyms:
crack, step down, break away, give way, soften, mince, reveal, give out, unwrap, conk out, part, wash, counteract, collapse, die, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, cushion, muffle, split, give away, damp, smash, dull, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, pause, divulge, buffer, let on, get around, interrupt, wear out, cave in, deaden, break-dance, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, subvert, better, burst, go bad, break off, tone down, disclose, bust, erupt, moisten, relent, recrudesce, undermine, stifle, break dance, go against, fall in, bump, let out, ruin, fall apart, kick downstairs, de-escalate, break down, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, mute, expose, break, moderate, discontinue, intermit, countermine, yield, wear, sabotage
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "dampen":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#123 | go | |
#207 | part | |
#272 | check | |
#495 | better | |
#555 | give | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1482 | develop | |
#1618 | break | |
#1763 | die | |
#2228 | separate | |
#2636 | fail | |
#2664 | wear | |
#2995 | discover | |
#3684 | split | |
#4224 | crack | |
#4373 | buffer | |
#4557 | yield | |
#5204 | wash | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5672 | founder | |
#7052 | collapse | |
#7124 | reveal | |
#8608 | lap | |
#9001 | breach | |
#9419 | disclose | |
#9876 | burst | |
#9954 | unwrap | |
#10588 | bump | |
#10611 | pause | |
#10713 | bust | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#11623 | interrupt | |
#12366 | expose | |
#12446 | cushion | |
#12551 | curb | |
#12746 | violate | |
#13293 | dull | |
#13346 | smash | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#14595 | fracture | |
#15923 | mute | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#18173 | rinse | |
#18220 | damp | |
#18285 | mitigate | |
#20138 | discourage | |
#21204 | choke | |
#21898 | bankrupt | |
#22808 | discontinue | |
#22879 | tame | |
#23039 | offend | |
#23051 | numb | |
#25411 | weaken | |
#26077 | sabotage | |
#27773 | smother | |
#30385 | soften | |
#34163 | drizzle | |
#35630 | girdle | |
#35818 | pall | |
#36830 | counteract | |
#42688 | divulge | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#50453 | mince | |
#51445 | dampen | |
#51579 | subvert | |
#53129 | erupt | |
#56041 | repress | |
#60869 | strangle | |
#76041 | launder | |
#79573 | lave | |
#82036 | suffocate | |
#87201 | moisten | |
#98708 | transgress | |
#108826 | demote | |
#109022 | relent | |
#109510 | relegate | |
#115405 | muffle | |
#158158 | deaden | |
#318728 | intermit |
How to use dampen in a sentence?
With labor market conditions poised to cool further amid tighter financial conditions and growing financial market uncertainty likely to dampen households’ willingness to spend, we foresee soft consumer spending growth in coming quarters, recent data on household spending and credit growth indicate that we will likely see a K-shaped consumer spending pattern in 2023, with low- and median-income families exercising more spending restraint, and families at the higher of the income spectrum still spending, albeit with more discretion.
If buyers are hesitant to go shopping because they want to avoid contact with others, this could dampen home sales directly, as social distancing is practiced by more people for longer periods of time, a slowdown in consumer spending could eventually lead to job loss and lower incomes.
But it's a reminder that Germany's growth at the moment is driven by consumption and not by the manufacturing backbone of the economy which at least at the beginning of year should somewhat dampen the growth outlook.
Millions of people are staring at a wall of expiring support programs, such as the pandemic unemployment insurance and eviction protection, which dampen the brightness of the incoming holiday season, while we see a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel with upcoming vaccines, there is still a big question around whether Congress can come to terms on a new stimulus package to help the country recover from the current economic downturn.
It will dampen inflation talk, we would prefer that inflation gets tempered and the Delta variant could temper it. That's not the way we want to temper it, of course.
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