Associations to the word «Dampener»

Wiktionary

DAMPENER, noun. A device that moistens or dampens something.
DAMPENER, noun. (figurative) A discouraging event or remark.

Dictionary definition

DAMPENER, noun. A device that dampens or moistens something; "he used a dampener to moisten the shirts before he ironed them".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne