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:
Direct democracy and federalism have not only geared the path of welfare state evolution in a more liberal direction, but have also dampened social expenditures.
Such expectations need to be dampened from the experience elsewhere.
In other southern states, the poll tax applied to primary voting and often had a large effect in dampening white turnout.
While corporatism still acted as a brake on inflationary pressures, central bank independence was no longer a significant factor in dampening rising prices.
Increases in the use of capital have dampened but not reversed this trend.
By this stage, the initial 'infectiousness' should be predictably dampened if not extinguished (provided that the time units involved are not too short).
Cascades can be dampened by public policies, such as installing snow fences on the sides of mountains that are prone to avalanches.
The expectation of this long-run equilibrium appreciation already dampens the initial overshooting depreciation.
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