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

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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.

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