<B>damned, </B>adjective, noun, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>cursed; abominable. (SYN) detestable. <DD><B> 2. </B>outrageous; damnable. <DD><B> 3. </B>doomed to eternal punishment. <DD><I>noun </I> Usually, <B>the damned,</B> the souls in hell. <BR> <I>Ex. In dreadful apparition, saw before his vision pass the shadows of the damned (Robert Pollok).</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> (Slang.) very. (SYN) extremely. </DL>
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<B>damnedest, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> most damned. <DD><I>noun </I> (Informal.) the greatest possible effort; utmost. <BR> <I>Ex. to do one's damnedest to win.</I> </DL>
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<B>damnification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a damnifying; damage; injury; loss. </DL>
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<B>damnify, </B>transitive verb, <B>-fied,</B> <B>-fying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) to cause loss or damage to; hurt in person, estate, or interest; injure. </DL>
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<B>damning, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that damns or condemns; that brings damnation. adv. <B>damningly.</B> </DL>
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<B>damnosa hereditas,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) a hurtful or disadvantageous inheritance. </DL>
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<B>damnous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) of or having to do with damage; causing loss or damage. </DL>
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<B>damnum fatale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) damages caused by chance, that is, by the happening of an event which could not be foreseen or guarded against by the highest degree of prudence or care. </DL>
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<B>Damoclean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Damocles. </DL>
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<B>Damocles, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek and Roman Legend.) a flatterer and courtier of Dionysius, king of Syracuse, who glorified the happiness and riches of kings. The king made Damocles aware of the constant dangers surrounding kings by seating him at a banquet under a sword suspended by a single hair. </DL>
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<B>Damocletian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like Damocles; having to do with Damocles. <BR> <I>Ex. No sense of Damocletian doom hangs over its [Thailand's parliament] discussions, and a gift for easygoing scepticism greases the cogs of its political life (James Morris).</I> </DL>
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<B>Damoetas, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in Theocritus and Virgil) a herdsman. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in pastoral poetry) a rustic. <DD><B> 3. </B>(in Sidney's <I>Arcadia</I>) a foolish country clown. </DL>
<B>Damon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Roman Legend.) a man who pledged his life for his friend Pythias, who had been sentenced to death. Because of their devotion, the lives of both were spared. </DL>
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<B>damosel</B> or <B>damozel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) damsel. <BR> <I>Ex. The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven (Dante Gabriel Rossetti).</I> </DL>
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<B>damp, </B>adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>slightly wet; moist. <BR> <I>Ex. My feet were damp from walking home in the rain. Use a damp mop for the floor.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) depressed; dejected. <BR> <I>Ex. With looks downcast and damp (Milton).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>moisture. <BR> <I>Ex. When it's foggy you can feel the damp in the air.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a thing that checks or deadens; check; discouragement. <BR> <I>Ex. Your illness cast a damp over the party.</I> (SYN) damper, dejection. <DD><B> 3. </B>any harmful gas that collects in mines, such as chokedamp or firedamp. <BR> <I>Ex. The mine disaster was caused by exploding damp.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) dejection. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make moist or slightly wet; dampen; moisten. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother damped the clothes before she ironed them.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to check or deaden: <DD><B> a. </B>to depress; discourage. <BR> <I>Ex. Weariness damped the traveler's enthusiasm.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to stifle; choke; extinguish. <BR> <I>Ex. to damp a fire.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>(Music.) to stop the vibrations of (a string, etc.). <DD><B> 3. </B>(Physics.) to reduce or lessen the amplitude of (oscillations or waves). <BR><I>expr. <B>damp down,</B> </I>to check or stifle; discourage; suppress. <BR> <I>Ex. Taxation damps down demand, and so does borrowing outside the banking system (Sunday Times). This technique not only inhibits genuine thinking but also damps down curiosity (Listener).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>damp off,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to rot, as the stems and leaves of plants when the soil and atmosphere are too wet or cold. <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) to decline in power, strength, wealth, beauty, or other attribute; decay; deteriorate. </I> <I>Ex. "We Churchills always damp off after 40," he [Sir Winston] is supposed to have said (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> adv. <B>damply.</B> noun <B>dampness.</B> </DL>
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<B>damped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>dampened. <DD><B> 2. </B>deadened. <DD><B> 3. </B>retarded in action. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Physics.) reduced gradually in amplitude. <BR> <I>Ex. The new analysis breaks sound into a new kind of element called a damped curve, described as "dying away like the vibration of a plucked guitar string" (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>damped waves,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) waves of a group or series that are gradually lessened in amplitude. </DL>
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<B>damped wave train,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Telegraphy.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a wave train composed of electric waves which are large in amplitude at or near the beginning of the group or series, and gradually decrease in amplitude as the end is approached. <DD><B> 2. </B>a form of wave train characteristic of certain telegraph systems, each wave train separated from the one ahead and the one behind by an interval of time. </DL>
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<B>dampen, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make damp; moisten. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother sprinkles water over the clothes to dampen them before ironing.</I> (SYN) wet. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to cast a chill over; depress; discourage. <BR> <I>Ex. The sad news dampened our spirits.</I> (SYN) lessen, dull, deaden. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to become damp. <BR> <I>Ex. The camp supplies dampened and molded during the long rains.</I> noun <B>dampener.</B> </DL>
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<B>damper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that discourages or checks. <BR> <I>Ex. The results are likely to clamp a damper on hopes for tax cuts any time soon (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a movable plate to control the draft in a stove or furnace. <BR> <I>Ex. In the pipe leading to the chimney we find a circular piece of metal, called a damper (Beauchamp, Mayfield, and West).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) <DD><B> a. </B>a device for checking vibration and reducing the volume of sound, especially of piano strings. <DD><B> b. </B>a mute for muffling the sound of a horn, or other brass or woodwind instrument. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Electricity.) <DD><B> a. </B>a device for checking the vibration of a magnetic needle. <DD><B> b. </B>a piece of copper in or near the poles of a synchronous machine to decrease hunting. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Australian.) a kind of unleavened bread made of flour and water and baked in hot ashes. <BR> <I>Ex. to feed you on damper, or some other nameless abomination (Charles Kingsley).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>put a damper on,</B> </I>to suppress; curb; curtail; squelch. <BR> <I>Ex. The chairman put a damper on every suggestion the committee made.</I> </DL>
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<B>damping, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the act or process of lessening the amplitude (of waves or oscillations). </DL>
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<B>damping-off, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a disease that causes the decay of young plants, especially seedlings and cuttings, at the surface of the ground, caused by various fungi that live near the surface of the soil. </DL>
<B>damp-proof, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that will not let dampness through or cause damage. <BR> <I>Ex. a damp-proof floor, damp-proof shoes.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make damp-proof. <BR> <I>Ex. to damp-proof a building.</I> </DL>
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<B>damsel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a young girl; maiden. <DD><B> 2. </B>a young unmarried lady. </DL>
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<B>damsel bug,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, brown or black, soft-bodied insect that eats aphids, leaf hoppers, and some other plant pests. </DL>
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<B>damselfish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various brightly colored fishes which live around coral reefs. </DL>
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<B>damsel fly,</B> or <B>damselfly, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an insect that holds its four wings vertically together when resting; devil's-darning-needle. It is similar to a dragonfly, but is smaller and more delicate. Damsel flies comprise a suborder. </DL>
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<B>damsite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a site of or for a dam. </DL>
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<B>damson, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, dark-purple plum. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tree that it grows on. <BR> <I>Ex. The damson blossom is out in the Lyth valley, several weeks late (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
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<B>damson plum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=damson.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(in England) a plum like the damson but sweeter. </DL>
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<B>damyankee </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a Northerner. <BR> <I>Ex. He can hardly be called a damyankee since he was born in Texas (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
