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 Meanings and Examples of DAMPER
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damper
 n.  something that deadens, restrains, or depresses
Classic Sentence:
1  This was a damper, and conversation died again.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Prince Andrew did not laugh and feared that he would be a damper on the spirits of the company, but no one took any notice of his being out of harmony with the general mood.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
4  She raised her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who is reeling.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Example Sentence:
1  There was no doubt that the crash put a bit of damper on an otherwise jubilant week for the space agency, dominated by good news stories about the successful landing of its Curiosity rover on Mars.
2  Recession in the early nineties put a damper on growth.