Crossword-Solution: DAMPENS 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Some of these explanations go well back, almost to the time when writing was established: education affects originality, dampens spontaneity, and infringes upon creativity.

The air is so highly charged with moisture that any damp thing remains damp and any dry thing dampens: the decks are always wet.

Water, water is everywhere; you breathe it, you absorb it; it wets your clothes and it dampens your spirits.

This city is generally considered the outpost of comfortable automobile touring, and rightly so, for the difficulty of getting gasoline and oil, along the route, and such small necessities as an automobile requires, continually oppresses one, and dampens his enthusiasm for the beauties of nature, the fascination of historic shrines, or the worship of art, the three chief things for which the most of us travel, unless we be mere vagabonds, and journey about for the sheer love of being on the move.

The house has but two compartments--the loft above stored with old nets and broken oars, and the living room beneath, whose dirt floor dampens the feet of an oak cupboard, a greasy table, a chair with a broken leg, and a mahogany bed.