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  1. I always dampen shirts before ironing them.
    我总是把衬衫先弄潮湿再熨.
  2. The rain hardly dampened the ground.
    雨几乎没有把地面打湿。
  3. Yet sometimes dampening external noise100- millionfold isn't enough.
    然而，有时候对外来杂讯抑制一亿倍还是不够。


dampening
[ noun ]
the act of making something slightly wet
<noun.act>


Dampen \Damp"en\ (d[a^]mp"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {dampened}
(d[a^]mp"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {dampening}.]
1. To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

2. To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.

In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
--The Century.


dampening \dampening\ n.
the act or process of making something slightly wet.

Syn: moistening.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. Mr. Ellis sees "a likely dampening" of Christmas spending, and says department stores, apparel specialty stores and consumer electronics retailers will feel that more.
  2. Lower interest receipts are already dampening GUS's figures.
  3. Statements by West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg and continued talk of a Group of Seven meeting also had a dampening effect on the dollar.
  4. The Labor Department said the most recent dampening of cost pressures reflected drops in prices of gasoline and apparel, particularly women's clothing, and a moderate rise in food costs.
  5. Rain was scattered across the central part of the nation Wednesday, dampening some drought-plagued areas, and temperatures were unseasonably high from the upper Mississippi Valley to the central East Coast.
  6. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan strongly suggested that the central bank would cut rates to counter the dampening effects of an apparent pullback in bank lending.
  7. Labour market weakness in parts of continental Europe and Japan is a dampening influence on demand.
  8. Riots in the occupied lands are only an hour's drive from Tel Aviv, but there are no outward signs that the unrest is dampening spirits in Israel's entertainment capital.
  9. He suggests that politicians might be exaggerating the importance of dampening exchange rate changes, which have remained relatively stable in Europe during the last five years.
  10. Many believe that it will tighten conditions under which German banks can borrow from the central bank, dampening inflationary pressures caused by unification.
  11. George Ball, chairman of Prudential-Bache Securities Inc., called for a surtax on short-term securities trading profits as a means of dampening excessive market volatility.
  12. Britain's mortgage rates have climbed sharply, and are in 13-percent range, following the government's move in recent months to push interest rates up to curb inflation by dampening the country's strong consumer spending.
  13. The pick-up in activity after the Gulf war was not sustainable as other external factors in the US, European and Japanese economies had a dampening effect.
  14. He argued that the Fed might also welcome a stock market reversal that had a dampening effect on the recovery. Mr Cocker said the odds against a rate rise were probably 65:35. He added that the Fed was in a difficult position.
  15. The Supreme Court ruled that corporate mergers can be dismantled through antitrust suits brought by private citizens, further dampening the takeover business.
  16. The music has been wondrously separated from the surface scratches of the old transcription disks without dampening the band's flare.
  17. Rising imports tend to curb demand for U.S.-produced goods, thus dampening production and threatening the loss of jobs.
  18. There is thus a risk of aggravating rather than dampening the boom and bust cycle.
  19. A major expansion of DRAM production during the boom years of 1987-1989 has created excess supply at a time when economic trends are dampening demand.
  20. The slow economy has resulted from the Fed's battle to drive interest rates higher as a way of dampening demand and cooling off inflationary pressures.
  21. Celeste said the education meeting would discuss a dampening effect on state and local education initiatives created by the budget climate and Bush's flat opposition to new taxes.
  22. This will increase the supply, and as with any other commodity, an increased supply ought to have a dampening effect on the price. Expectations of inflation are also important.
  23. While the central bank doesn't set out to create a downturn, it often finds it difficult to walk the fine line between dampening demand to cool inflationary pressures and tightening so much that a new recession is triggered.
  24. One not entirely accidental side effect of the current crackdown will be a dampening of the merger and acquisition boom.
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