dampen
verb (used with object)
is dampening
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present progressiveof dampen (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Higher costs are eroding household purchasing power and compressing business margins, while heightened uncertainty is dampening business confidence and investment,” the UN said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
U.S.-Chinese political strains are adding to uncertainty that is dampening the willingness of consumers and businesses to spend and invest.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023
The Federal Reserve's fastest interest rate-hiking cycle since the 1980s as it battles inflation is dampening demand across the economy, though the labor market remains resilient.
From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2023
But with post-pandemic measures looking likely to drive up inflation, an increasingly strained economic environment is dampening investor risk appetite for new names.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2022
Exeter, Gloucester, and Glasgow are three great wet cities in my memory,—a damp cathedral in each, with a damp-coated usher to each, who shows damp tombs, and whose talk is dampening to the last degree.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various
