bedamp

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verb

To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.

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Meanings

verbbedamp (third-person singular simple present bedamps, present participle bedamping, simple past and past participle bedamped)

present singular third person bedamps · participle present bedamping · participle past bedamped · past bedamped

  1. transitiveTo cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.

    Nor is it sense to prostitute the kirk With pleas of faith in God for business weal, When lack of enterprise bedamps your zeal.

    1922, William Bowman Tucker, Laurentian Tales, page 174
    2 more examples

    Before I reached our lodgings, the dusk settled into streets, and a mist bedewed and bedamped me and I went astray, as is usual with me, and had to inquire my way; […]

    1912, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home

    “Hallowed is the gleet that bedamps the repentant's nerve - sacred is the golden channel spurting from the kindness of liberty's expiring worldbeater - […]”

    2013, Sammy Mapes, Elysian Fell, page 5

Origin

From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.

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MLA

“bedamp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedamp. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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