1. damp - Noun
2. damp - Adjective
3. damp - Verb
5. damp - Adjective Satellite
6. Damp - Proper noun
Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
Dejected; depressed; sunk.
To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains,alas too few. William Wordsworth
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. Michael Chabon
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. Margaret Atwood
Near the dry, the damp will burn. Turkish Proverb
When the glow worm lights her lamp, the air is always very damp. American Proverb
June damp and warm does the farmer no harm. Traditional Proverb