Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

damp

/ˈdeə̯mp/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms damper dampest damps damping damped

  1. adjective In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. “The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.”
  2. adjective (figuratively) Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
  3. adjective Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
  4. noun Moisture; humidity; dampness.
  5. noun (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
  6. noun (archaic) Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.
  7. noun (mining, archaic or historical) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
  8. verb (transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
  9. verb (transitive, archaic) To dampen; to make moderately wet. “to damp cloth”
  10. verb (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
  11. proper noun A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
  12. proper noun A surname from German.
  13. proper noun A surname from English.

Synonyms

moist glum thoan thone melancholy sorrowful moisten dampness moistness muffle mute dull dampen tone down deaden soften weaken break dampish

Etymology

From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”), from Old English damp, from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”).

* As an English surname, from the adjective damp.
* As a north/Low German and Danish surname, from places with the name Damp, such as Damp in Schleswig-Holstein, possibly from an old onomatopoeic verb meaning "to fall down," referring to falling watercourse of the Bökenau / Schwastrumer Au near the estate. Compare Danish dumpe and English dump.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
  2. noun Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
  3. adjective Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
  4. adjective Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]

Etymology [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor, steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG. dimpfen to smoke, imp. dampf.]

Etymology [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “damp”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “damp” (best matches first).

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