tamp

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  1. transitive verb To pack down tightly by a succession of blows or taps.
  2. transitive verb To pack clay, sand, or dirt into (a drill hole) above an explosive.

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  • Obama is also being advised that he should tamp down expectations of what might come out of this meeting, lest disappointed investors run for cover at its conclusion.
  • I'm sure there's some reasonable decision not to include some possible options and not some heinous plot to tamp down discussion. —  Marketplace
  • Maybe in some small way these students are helping to tamp down the rhetoric over this particular nominee. —  Above the Law
  • NBC has been able to tamp down the illegal flow of copyrighted content in the United States as Hulu has grown to become the second most popular online video site in the U.S. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Could the concerned Flanagan be trying to tamp down news of this little poll? —  Impolitical
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  1. Perhaps back-formation from tampin, variant of tampion.

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  1. apparently developed from tampion, tampon, formerly tampin, perhaps regarded in some uses as a verbal noun *tamping, of a verb thence inferred and used as tamp. Otherwise, a variant, due to association with tampion, of tap: see tap.
 

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