Crossword-Solution: DAMP 4 letters, 230 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Damp n. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Damp n. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
Damp n. A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints,
etc.
Damp superl. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet;
moist; humid.
Damp superl. Dejected; depressed; sunk.
Damp n. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet;
to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
Damp n. To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to
cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to
weaken; to discourage.

We have 230 clues for the answer “DAMP”

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" . . . ___ souls of housemaids": Eliot 1 answer
" . . . ___ souls of housemaids": T.S.E. 1 answer
A little bit wet 1 answer
A little sweaty, say 1 answer
A mite sweaty 1 answer
Affected by drizzling 1 answer
Almost dry 1 answer
Clammy, like a cellar 1 answer
Coal mine gas. 1 answer
Coal-mine gas 1 answer
Conducive to mold, maybe 1 answer
Covered in dew 1 answer
Cut off air to a fire 1 answer
Deaden acoustically 1 answer
Deaden by wrapping 1 answer
Deaden drum vibration 1 answer
Deaden, as a musical string 1 answer
Deaden, as a piano string 1 answer
Deaden, in acoustics 1 answer
Dewy or dull 1 answer
Dull, musically 1 answer
Favorable for mildew 1 answer
Good for mold 1 answer
Ideal, as greenhouse soil 1 answer
In need of a dehumidifier 1 answer
In need of dehumidification 1 answer
In need of more time in the dryer 1 answer
Just placed on the clothesline, say 1 answer
Kinda wet 1 answer
Like April, often 1 answer
Like a just-used towel 1 answer
Like a misty day 1 answer
Like a sponge, often 1 answer
Like a wrung dishcloth 1 answer
Like a wrung washcloth 1 answer
Like a wrung-out dishrag 1 answer
Like a wrung-out towel 1 answer
Like cellars, typically 1 answer
Like clothes after a spin cycle 1 answer
Like clothes that came out of the dryer too early 1 answer
Like freshly washed hair 1 answer
Like gym socks, often 1 answer
Like laundry before drying 1 answer
Like many a Cellar door device 1 answer
Like many a basement 1 answer
Like many a dungeon 1 answer
Like many old cellars 1 answer
Like mildew's milieu 1 answer
Like morning grass, typically 1 answer
Like musty basements 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DAMP (5)

They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ’tis to eat rich damp cake.” He burst into laughter, not hollow laughter now, but honest laughter.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
But she said: ‘I care not for you, Care not for your belts of wampum, Care not for your paint and feathers, Care not for your jests and laughter; I am happy with Osseo!’ “Once to some great feast invited, Through the damp and dusk of evening, Walked together the ten sisters, Walked together with their husbands; Slowly followed old Osseo, With fair Oweenee beside him; All the others chatted gayly, These two only walked in silence.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
All these and more came flocking; but with looks Down cast and damp, yet such wherein appear’d Obscure som glimps of joy, to have found thir chief Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost In loss it self; which on his count’nance cast Like doubtful hue: but he his wonted pride Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently rais’d Their fainted courage, and dispel’d their fears.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Their volubility drowned every other noise in the place, and the overheated store sounded of their spirited language as it reeked of pipe smoke, damp woolens, and kerosene.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Its activity in sucking the moisture from the rich damp sod was almost a process observable by the eye.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with DAMP (3)

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.
Terry Pratchett Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
Neil Gaiman American Gods
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the Stoneofapea CH.
Patricia Briggs Iron Kissed
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 372 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).