Dampen vs Damage - What's the difference?
dampen | damage |
To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
* The Century
* 2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, ,
To become damp; to deaden.
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
As verbs the difference between dampen and damage
is that dampen is to smoke, to give off smoke while damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.As a noun damage is
injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.dampen
English
Verb
(en verb)- In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
- Pregnant women are 20 times as likely as other healthy young women to contract listeriosis, probably because in pregnancy the immune system is dampened to prevent rejection of the fetus.
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
