bedamp
verbEtymology From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.
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To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
- Before I reached our lodgings, the dusk settled into streets, and a mist bedewed and bedamped me and I went astray, as is usual with me, and had to inquire my way; […]1912, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home:
- Nor is it sense to prostitute the kirk With pleas of faith in God for business weal, When lack of enterprise bedamps your zeal.1922, William Bowman Tucker, Laurentian Tales, page 174:
1 more example
- “Hallowed is the gleet that bedamps the repentant's nerve - sacred is the golden channel spurting from the kindness of liberty's expiring worldbeater - […]”2013, Sammy Mapes, Elysian Fell, page 5: