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bedamping

bedamping is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about bedamping

What is bedamping the present participle and gerund of?
Bedamping is the present participle and gerund of bedamp.

Words near bedamping in the dictionary

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

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