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damp
(redirected from damping down)

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See: repress, stifle, thwart


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In short, three decades of damping down the will to vote is keeping people away from the polls.
By damping down the fire of his own sexual excitation, he had tamed the natural force of fire.
As they pass the time - talking and singing, fueling and damping down the tensions among them - we learn that Terry's sister, who seems so relentlessly dense, is not so much forgetful as blessed by a selective memory that allows her to misremember her part in her dying husband's having turned away from the career in classical music that was his youthful ambition.
 
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