damp
adjective
slightly wet; moist.
was damping
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past progressiveof damp.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But I was damping; I like a trench, I have no lives to spare; And in those catacombs, however cramping, You did at least know vaguely where you were.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 by Sir Owen Seaman
The postponement of this bright vision for even twenty-four hours, now that it had seemed to be within my grasp, was damping.
From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Ward Muir
A little of this" he was damping a rag of lint with the contents of the bottle "as a cleansing agent first.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon
This sort of thing was damping to the showman.
From Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
The rain was damping the fire, but she could feel--it was too dark to see--that her work was done.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
