1 to make feelings, especially of excitement or enjoyment, less strong: --
Nothing you can say will dampen her enthusiasm.
3 to make something less strong or successful: --
In traditional societies, output fluctuated widely, but the effects on income were dampened by the inverse correlation with prices (given the low elasticity of food consumption).
Most of these cases involve a disease-modifying drug which works by dampening the disease process to prevent further proliferation into the major joints, which in turn could cause disability.
Technological breakthroughs in vegetable production, if they are realized, will be at least as important for dampening the volatility of vegetable yields as for increasing mean yields.
Across the three outcome variables, the conditioning influence of high school work experience is clearly present and consistent in dampening the effects of young-adult work stressors on mental health.
An interposition graft may be used, but this dampens the progression of the pulsatile wave down the descending aorta and may thus contribute to renal hypertension.
54 society would have dampened demand for prestige goods, while the lower strata would have been too busy scrambling to survive to bother with acquiring fancy pottery.
The incessant and mostly fruitless campaigns further impoverished the leadership and dampened its warrior spirit.
The expectation of this long-run equilibrium appreciation already dampens the initial overshooting depreciation.
