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damp something down 1. Lit. to make something damp. Damp the clothes down before you iron them, Please damp down the clothes first. 2. Fig. to reduce the intensity of a flame, usually by cutting down on the air supply, as with a damper. Please damp the woodstove down. Damp down the air supply or you are going to end up with a raging inferno. damp off [for seedlings] to die from too much water. All the new plants damped off, and we had to buy some from the nursery. The little seedlings damped off and withered away. a damp squib (British & Australian) an event which people think will be exciting but which is disappointing when it happens Usage notes: A squib is a type of firework (= a small container filled with chemicals which explodes to produce bright lights and loud noises) and if it becomes wet, it will not explode. The party turned out to be a bit of a damp squib. Half the people who'd been invited didn't turn up. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In short, three decades of damping down the will to vote is keeping people away from the polls. By damping down the fire of his own sexual excitation, he had tamed the natural force of fire. As they pass the time - talking and singing, fueling and damping down the tensions among them - we learn that Terry's sister, who seems so relentlessly dense, is not so much forgetful as blessed by a selective memory that allows her to misremember her part in her dying husband's having turned away from the career in classical music that was his youthful ambition. |
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