0 past simple and past participle of dampen --
2 to make feelings, especially of excitement or enjoyment, less strong: --
Nothing you can say will dampen her enthusiasm.
Increases in the use of capital have dampened but not reversed this trend.
This could mean that expenditures on export subsidies become more volatile as exchange rate impacts are no longer dampened by the reserve.
Such expectations need to be dampened from the experience elsewhere.
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.
These adjustment lending operations undoubtedly dampened the out migration from the lowlands in the period 1984-1986.
The stronger the correlations, the more incentives should be dampened.
If mobilization campaigns become short-lived events, their impact could be dampened before any real changes are brought about.
The value of the person with the most negative welfare will not be dampened at all.
