"bedamp" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1912, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home",
          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1922, William Bowman Tucker, Laurentian Tales, page 174",
          "text": "Nor is it sense to prostitute the kirk\nWith pleas of faith in God for business weal,\nWhen lack of enterprise bedamps your zeal.",
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          "ref": "2013, Sammy Mapes, Elysian Fell, page 5",
          "text": "“Hallowed is the gleet that bedamps the repentant's nerve - sacred is the golden channel spurting from the kindness of liberty's expiring worldbeater - […]”",
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        "To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen."
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        "(transitive) To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen."
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  "word": "bedamp"
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