damp
adjective
slightly wet; moist.
had damped
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past perfectof damp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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His 2006 research found that companies that have the biggest increases in capital spending have subsequently had damped stock returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2018
The change of leadership from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to Mr. Asquith had damped Liberal enthusiasm.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Games, which men in any other class of society would vote childish, were entered into with a zest which neither gray hairs nor stout bodies in any degree had damped.
From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn
Mr. Kingston recovered his spirits which she had damped a little while ago.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
The inrush of water had damped her furnaces.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
