bedamp
English edit
Etymology edit
From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.
Verb edit
bedamp (third-person singular simple present bedamps, present participle bedamping, simple past and past participle bedamped)
- (transitive) To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
- 1912, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home:
- 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; […]
- 1922, William Bowman Tucker, Laurentian Tales, page 174:
- Nor is it sense to prostitute the kirk
With pleas of faith in God for business weal,
When lack of enterprise bedamps your zeal.
- 2013, Sammy Mapes, Elysian Fell, page 5:
- “Hallowed is the gleet that bedamps the repentant's nerve - sacred is the golden channel spurting from the kindness of liberty's expiring worldbeater - […] ”