Dampen vs Dampne - What's the difference?

dampen | dampne |

As verbs the difference between dampen and dampne

is that dampen is to smoke, to give off smoke while dampne is (obsolete) to damn.

dampen

English

Verb

(en verb)

To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.

* The Century

In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.

* 2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, ,

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.

To become damp; to deaden.

Anagrams

* * English ergative verbs ----

dampne

English

Verb

(dampn)

(obsolete) To damn.

* (rfdate),

* 1547', Anne Askew, ''The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe'' in '''1996 , Elaine V. Beilin, ''The Examinations of Anne Askew , Oxford University Press, page 86:

But lete them be ware least they dampne not their owne wretched sowles.

* Sir Thomas Wyat (1503 – 1542), Certayne Psalmes'' in 1810 , Samuel Johnson, ''The Works of the English Poets: from Chaucer to Cowper , volume 2, page 395:

But when he wayeth the fault, and recompence, / He dampneth this hys dede and fyndeth playne / Atwene them two no whytt equiualence:

* Thomas Cranmer (1489 – 1556), Certayne Psalmes'' in 1836 , Richard Challoner, ''Modern British Martyrology , Keating, Brown & Co., page 58:

For hereby shall be a great occasion to satisfie the Princess Dowager and the Lady Mary, which doe thinke that they sholde dampne thair sowles if thay sholde abandon and relinquish thair astats.