Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Moisture; moistness; moderate humidity: as, the dampness of a fog, of the ground, or of a cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Moderate
humidity ;moisture ;fogginess ;moistness . - noun Degree to which something is
damp ormoist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slight wetness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Across his chest he laid his Mauser rifle, lingering affectionately for a moment to wipe the dampness from the barrel.
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Luckily, we have a fancy bathroom that includes a drying feature, but my main concern about dampness is a stickiness on the veneer flooring.
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Under his palm he could still feel a slight dampness from the sap; it was oozing out little by little, like the blood of a man slowly bleeding to death .
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Under his palm he could still feel a slight dampness from the sap; it was oozing out little by little, like the blood of a man slowly bleeding to death .
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Under his palm he could still feel a slight dampness from the sap; it was oozing out little by little, like the blood of a man slowly bleeding to death .
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Across his chest he laid his Mauser rifle, lingering affectionately for a moment to wipe the dampness from the barrel.
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Mauser rifle, lingering affectionately for a moment to wipe the dampness from the barrel.
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The atmosphere threw off that chilly dampness which is felt after the passage of a great meteor.
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The atmosphere threw off that chilly dampness which is felt after the passage of a great meteor.
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Well, from that he started in, an 'he didn't stop tell he had expounded about every kind of dampness that ever descended from heaven or rose from the earth.
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yarb commented on the word dampness
Citation on sunshiny.
May 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word dampness
C'mon, this doesn't cut it. Go moist!
October 21, 2008