Usually means: Reducing intensity or effect gradually.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. dampening: Merriam-Webster
  2. dampening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dampening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dampening, dampening: Wordnik
  5. dampening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dampening: Wiktionary
  7. Dampening, dampening: Dictionary.com
  8. dampening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dampening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. dampening: Rhymezone
  11. Dampening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dampening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dampening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. dampening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dampening: Legal dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dampening: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dampening)

▸ noun:  The act of making or becoming damp.

Similar:
moistening, damping, dimming, deattenuation, extenuation, dullification, diminishment, desensitization, minishment, diminution, more...

Types:
quelling, suppressing, dousing, extinguishing, smothering, more...

Phrases:
dampening effect, sound dampening, act of dampening, more...

Adjectives:
general, stress, slight, sound, little, such, inevitable, significant, further, more, consequent

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Similar:
moistening, damping, dimming, deattenuation, extenuation, dullification, diminishment, desensitization, minishment, diminution, more...

Types:
quelling, suppressing, dousing, extinguishing, smothering, more...

Phrases:
dampening effect, sound dampening, act of dampening, more...

Adjectives:
general, stress, slight, sound, little, such, inevitable, significant, further, more, consequent



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