"wet-blanket" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wet-blankets",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet-blanketing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet-blanketed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet-blanketed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "wet-blanket (third-person singular simple present wet-blankets, present participle wet-blanketing, simple past and past participle wet-blanketed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women",
          "text": "A few other topics of general interest were introduced by Mr. Brooke and wet-blanketed by Mrs. Brooke, and conversation languished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, William Lyon Phelps, The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement",
          "text": "Possibly the world had not encouraged him so much as he hoped ; his tone is that of- a man whose enthusiasm had been wet-blanketed by adverse criticism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Ernst Lothar, Willa Muir, The Loom of Justice, page 95",
          "text": "But if a single syllable had been breathed to Papa he would have wet-blanketed the whole adventure: he was much too strict.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Wilfred P. Deac, Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975",
          "text": "A second significant enemy commando raid further wet-blanketed satisfaction over the reopening of Highway 4.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disparage, belittle, or remove the satisfaction and joy from; to act as a wet blanket towards."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "disparage",
          "disparage"
        ],
        [
          "belittle",
          "belittle"
        ],
        [
          "satisfaction",
          "satisfaction"
        ],
        [
          "joy",
          "joy"
        ],
        [
          "wet blanket",
          "wet blanket"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wet-blanket"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wet-blankets",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet-blanketing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet-blanketed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet-blanketed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English multiword terms",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women",
          "text": "A few other topics of general interest were introduced by Mr. Brooke and wet-blanketed by Mrs. Brooke, and conversation languished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, William Lyon Phelps, The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement",
          "text": "Possibly the world had not encouraged him so much as he hoped ; his tone is that of- a man whose enthusiasm had been wet-blanketed by adverse criticism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Ernst Lothar, Willa Muir, The Loom of Justice, page 95",
          "text": "But if a single syllable had been breathed to Papa he would have wet-blanketed the whole adventure: he was much too strict.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Wilfred P. Deac, Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975",
          "text": "A second significant enemy commando raid further wet-blanketed satisfaction over the reopening of Highway 4.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disparage, belittle, or remove the satisfaction and joy from; to act as a wet blanket towards."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disparage",
          "disparage"
        ],
        [
          "belittle",
          "belittle"
        ],
        [
          "satisfaction",
          "satisfaction"
        ],
        [
          "joy",
          "joy"
        ],
        [
          "wet blanket",
          "wet blanket"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wet-blanket"
}