Bedamp
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bedamp is a verb meaning (transitive) To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
Meaning
(transitive) To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
Example Sentences
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 - […]”
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; […]
Word Forms
- bedamps
- bedamping
- bedamped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bedaub, bedrench, swamp, wash, bathe, beplaster.
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