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bedamps

bedamps is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bedamps

What is bedamps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedamps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedamp.

Words near bedamps in the dictionary

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

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