Dampener

What is Dampener?


1.

Any experience that feels like having a bucket of cold water thrown over your head. Something that produces a corresponding comedown in mood in the person experiencing it.

"Jeez, when I found out the price of the drinks, it put a right old dampener on the proceedings."

See kibosh, comedown, gloom, damper


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