Synonyms for damper
ˈdæm pərdamper

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1. dampernoun

   a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace

   Synonyms:
   muffler

2. damper, mufflernoun

   a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations

   Synonyms:
   silencer, muffler

3. dampernoun

   a depressing restraint

   "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"

   Synonyms:
   muffler

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1. • Device
   • Plate
   • Restraint

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1. dampernoun

   Synonyms:
   check, hinderance, obstacle, impediment, lion in the way

2. dampernoun

   Synonyms:
   discouragement, wet blanket, cold water

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1. dampernoun

   Synonyms:
   check, setback, wet blanket, discouragement, rebuff

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1. List of paraphrases for "damper":

   absorber, dumper, strut, buffer, bump, shock, cushioning, bumper

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1. Jerome K. Jerome:

   The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

2. Manager Brandon Sardinha:

   Some people got hurt and some got sick, that was a damper, but everybody else that was still here, they picked each other up and they played for those guys that could not be here. That’s our motto as a team, to back each other up, no matter if they’re here or not.

3. Gina Verdibello:

   We want to sell cookies. It’s part of our thing. But this is putting kind of a damper on it.

4. Greg Vesey:

   It is still a very difficult market. The trade war with China has put a damper on deals in China.

5. Chuck Carlson:

   There seems to be this perpetual stream of kind of quasi-negative news surrounding some of the really big market cap stocks, like Apple particularly, and anytime you have got Apple misbehaving that tends to put a damper on the averages.