Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedamp

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-damp
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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; […]"
"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 - […]”"

Etymology

From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

bedamps (present, singular) bedamping (participle, present) bedamped (participle, past) bedamped (past)

Questions

What does bedamp mean?: To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
Where does bedamp come from?: From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.

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