Antonyms for damp
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1. damp

   Antonyms:
   allure, attract, cajole, captivate, coax, decoy, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt, win

   Synonyms:
   chill, deter, dissuade, drive away, repel, warn

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1. damp

   Antonyms:
   urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite

   Synonyms:
   cool, blunt, dishearten, quench, slack, moderate, humid, wet, moist, discourage, discountenance, repress

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1. damp, dampness, moistnessadjective

   a slight wetness

   Antonyms:
   dry

   Synonyms:
   dampness, moistness

2. damp, dampish, moistverb

   slightly wet

   "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

   Antonyms:
   dry

   Synonyms:
   dampish, moist

3. muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb

   deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

   Antonyms:
   dry

   Synonyms:
   muffle, wash, stifle, mute, pall, numb, moderate, moisten, weaken, benumb, repress, break, soften, tone down, dull, smother, blunt, deaden, dampen, tame, strangle

4. dampverb

   restrain or discourage

   "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"

   Antonyms:
   dry

   Synonyms:
   tone down, mute, weaken, dull, deaden, break, dampen, muffle, soften

5. dampen, deaden, dampverb

   make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

   "muffle the message"

   Antonyms:
   dry

   Synonyms:
   stifle, mute, weaken, dull, wash, deaden, muffle, blunt, dampen, girdle, tone down, break, moisten, soften

6. dampen, damp, soften, weaken, breakverb

   lessen in force or effect

   "soften a shock"; "break a fall"

   Antonyms:
   dry

   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, 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, dampen, 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

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1. dampadjective

   Synonyms:
   moist, wet, humid, dank

How to use damp in a sentence?

1. Terry Torrison:

   The ECB and OPEC meetings could prove to be a damp squib, which may result in markets drifting a bit lower.

2. Joseph Addison:

   Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

3. Pete Cunningham:

   If I want to buy a new house then I can go around and I can check to see whether there is damp patches around or whether the current owners have painted over and tried to hide any issues with leaks or damp patches, so that's another great example, also silly things like I'm going into the bakers and getting the freshest bread, you can point the phone up and identify where the freshest bread is. Or I let my dog out in the evening and it's pitch black, so now I can find my dog without having to chase around and rummage in bushes.

4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

5. Van Dam:

   This is a rare occurrence that took place because cool, damp air became trapped in the lower levels of the canyon, it was literally stuck underneath a warm layer of air just above. In the meteorological world, this is referred to as an inversion when the temperature actually warms with height (as opposed to it cooling with a rise in altitude).

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