bedamp

Definitions

To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.

transitive

Examples

“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; […]”

“Nor is it sense⟳ to prostitute the kirk With pleas of faith in God for business weal, When lack of enterprise bedamps your zeal.”

““Hallowed is the gleet that bedamps the repentant's nerve - sacred is the golden channel spurting from the kindness of liberty's expiring worldbeater - […]””

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