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bedamped

bedamped is the simple past and past participle of bedamp.

Meaning of bedamp

Verb

bedamp (third-person singular simple present bedamps, present participle bedamping, simple past and past participle bedamped)

  1. (transitive) To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
    • Before I reached our lodgings, the dusk settled into streets, and a mist bedewed and bedamped me and I went astray, as is usual with me, and had to inquire my way; […]1912, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home

Adjective

bedamped (comparative more bedamped, superlative most bedamped)

  1. Dampened; damp.

Forms of bedamped

comparativemore bedamped
superlativemost bedamped

Origin of bedamped

From bedamp + -ed.

Questions about bedamped

What does bedamped mean?
Bedamped means dampened; damp.
What is bedamped the simple past and past participle of?
Bedamped is the simple past and past participle of bedamp.
What part of speech is bedamped?
Bedamped is an adjective.

Words near bedamped in the dictionary

  1. bedamn
  2. bedamned
  3. bedamning
  4. bedamns
  5. bedamp
  6. bedamped
  7. bedamping
  8. bedamps
  9. bedan
  10. bedance
  11. bedanced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedamped (page history and authors); bedamp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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