0 present participle of dampen
2 to make feelings, especially of excitement or enjoyment, less strong:
Nothing you can say will dampen her enthusiasm.
Dampening of the cortisol response to handling at 3-months in human infants and its relation to sleep, circadian cortisol activity, and behavioral distress.
A partial effect, on the other hand, would suggest temporary dampening of lexical access during word learning.
This dampening of the aggregative response of predators to heterogeneous prey patches leads to destabilization of the predator-prey interaction.
This is caused by the dampening effect of collisions.
We then introduce postponed retirement as a potentially dampening policy measure due to its encouragement of human capital formation.
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.
In the absence of a flourishing rural industry, the prevalence of the full peasantry apparently had a typical dampening impact on demographic development.
