dampen

Other forms of dampen

past tense

dampenned·

present participle

dampenning·

third person

dampens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dampen

What does dampen mean?

dampen means "suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dampen?

dampen has 2 syllables: dam-pen. The stress falls on "dam". In IPA it is /ˈdæmpən/.

What is another word for dampen?

Close synonyms include stifle, moisten, wash, muffle, mute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dampen a common word?

dampen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.