>damp
>damped; damping; damps
>transitive verb
>1a
>to affect with or as if with a noxious gas : choke
>b
>to diminish the activity or intensity of
>adjective
>1a
>archaic : being confused, bewildered, or shocked
>stupefied
>b
>depressed, dull
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