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Bedamp vs Bedamn - What's the difference?

bedamp | bedamn |

In transitive terms the difference between bedamp and bedamn

is that bedamp is to make damp; dampen while bedamn is to damn or curse roundly or with iteration and emphasis; damn all over.

bedamp

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make damp; dampen.
  • *1912 , Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home :
    • Before I reached our lodgings, the dusk settled into streets, and a mist bedewed and bedamped me and I went astray, as is usual with me, and had to inquire my way; [...]

    bedamn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To damn or curse roundly or with iteration and emphasis; damn all over.
  • *2006 , Johanna Lindsey, Joining :
    • "[...] You choose to do them anyway, and bedamn any opinion to the contrary."