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Cambridge disagrees, but I guess things got watered down on the way :)

Dampen
verb [ T ]
UK /ˈdæmpən/ US
to make something less strong or successful:
Nope! All you dampeners, stop pissng on everyone's Cheerios :crazy:
 


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Dave is in his glory because as long as people are talking about them, he has a chance.
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Cambridge disagrees, but I guess things got watered down on the way :)

Dampen
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to make something less strong or successful:
I always keep an Oxford American English Dictionary handy, even when driving. Sorry I'm so late in posting to this thread, but I had to pull over for a brake and I had trouble with the laches on my council.
 

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Just passing on a pet peeve that one of my engineering professors pounded into my head. I would guess that 'most' of you are damping your tailgates, not dampening them, though some of you may enjoy a moist tailgate. :LOL:

Damp:
Definition of damp transitive verb. 1a : to affect with or as if with a noxious gas : choke. b : to diminish the activity or intensity of damping down the causes of inflation liquid damps out compass oscillations. c : to check the vibration or oscillation of

Dampen:
verb (used with object)
to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge. to dampen one's spirits.
You forgot this part of the definition of DAMPEN:
make less strong or intense.
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