0 present participle of dampen --
2 to make feelings, especially of excitement or enjoyment, less strong: --
Nothing you can say will dampen her enthusiasm.
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.
But both in dampening radical suffrage agitation and in facilitating a clearer ideological division between the parties, the 1867 act helped to correct the destructive consequences of the 1840s.
The first is a dampening of exchange rate volatility over time.
However, armaments cost money and have absolute and opportunity costs, so the level of one's own armaments acts as a dampening factor.
This substitution results in additional negative charge to an area that is critical for dampening the negative charge of the nucleotide ligand.
Increased contributions will restrain growth in earnings, which presumably will have a dampening effect on stock prices.
After all, small risks rarely lead to actual harm, whereas fear and so on can have a constant dampening effect on one's spirits.
In the absence of a flourishing rural industry, the prevalence of the full peasantry apparently had a typical dampening impact on demographic development.
