Verb

• S: (v) stifle, dampen (suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity) "Stifle your curiosity"
• S: (v) moisten, wash, dampen (make moist) "The dew moistened the meadows"
• S: (v) muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down (deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping)
• S: (v) dampen (reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves))
• S: (v) dampen, deaden, damp (make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible) "muffle the message"
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• W: (n) damper [Related to: damp] (a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations)
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• S: (v) dampen (check; keep in check (a fire))
• S: (v) dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break (lessen in force or effect) "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
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• S: (v) deaden, blunt (make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation) "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
• S: (v) obtund (reduce the edge or violence of) "obtunded reflexes"
• S: (v) petrify (cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright) "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
• S: (v) dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break (lessen in force or effect) "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
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