Damps is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DAMPS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DAMP, to wet slightly
• make (something) slightly wet
• make a fire burn less strongly by reducing the flow of air to it
• control or restrain a feeling or a situation
• reduce or stop the vibration of (the strings of a piano or other musical instrument) so as to reduce the volume of sound
• progressively reduce the amplitude of (an oscillation or vibration)
NOUN:
• moisture diffused through the air or a solid substance or condensed on a surface, typically with detrimental or unpleasant effects
• damp air or atmosphere
• a discouragement or check
ADJECTIVE:
• slightly wet
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lessen in intensity

Words related to DAMPS

damp9 damped12 damping13

Words that contain DAMPS

firedamps17 afterdamps18 blackdamps23 chokedamps24 whitedamps21

How to use DAMPS in a sentence

• Others imagined she had been seized only with a tedious faint, and that the operation of the cold dews and damps upon her body might naturally recover her.
• In this hill was a silver-mine which was very dangerous to enter, for many men who had gone to dig silver there had been smothered in the bottom by damps and noisome airs.
• Perhaps, in all the long years of anguish since that hour, no tender hand had touched his brow, nor wiped away the damps of a bitter sorrow.
• The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements.
• The wet trees hang above the walks Purple with damps and earthish stains, And strewn by moody, absent rains With rose-leaves from the wild-grown stalks.
• Originally there were twelve of these Cartoons, but four of them have been destroyed by damps and neglect.
• A sudden cold chilled the damps of morning slumber, dizziness came over her, she could not see.
• After walking some time many of the people recovered, as it was principally from cold and damps they suffered.
• After a most fatiguing march arrived at that place half-dead with damps and cold.
• It even damps the joy with which I hear of your high health, and welcomes to me the consequences of my want of it.
• The various waters round about, issuing from the gravel, or drained from the nightly damps, had run into a hollow, filled with the decaying vegetation of former years.
• She wiped the death damps from his brow With her pale hands and soft, Whose touch upon the lute chords low Had stilled his heart so oft.
• But the relaxed grasp, the dewy coldness, the damps of death which stood upon his forehead, all told me that he was hastening fast to Jesus.
• The chill fog rested upon her face like the damps of the grave.
• Tenderly she wiped the death damps from his dusky brow, and imprinted upon it a farewell kiss.
• When we once more came out into the open air, the stars had disappeared and the air was heavy with the damps of approaching daybreak.
• Their light, instead of being put out by the damps of the valley of the Shadow of Death, often burned with added brightness.
• Millions daily bathed in the poisonous damps and destructive effluvia of lead, silver, copper, and arsenic.
• Damps oozing from the walls made the path more and more tiresome and slippery as they proceeded.

Similar words containing DAMP without suffix s

damp9 dampy13 damped12 dampen11 damper11 damply14 dampens12 dampers12 dampest12 dampier12 damping13 dampish15 dampened14 dampener13 dampiest13 dampings14 dampness13 firedamp16 undamped14 afterdamp17 blackdamp22 chokedamp23 dampeners14 dampening15 firedamps17 whitedamp20 afterdamps18 blackdamps23 chokedamps24 dampcourse17 dampnesses15 whitedamps21 dampcourses18 dampishness19 underdamper17 underdampers18 dampishnesses21

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