Damper [noun]

It doesn’t have a whoosh of air or a physical damper rubbing on the wheel to make annoying sounds as the pedaling gets tougher.

Kitchell concluded, however, that if one wants to minimize damage in the unlikely event of a rare 975-year quake, earthquake dampers should be installed at a projected multimillion-dollar cost.

High unemployment, plus continued Covid-19 outbreaks, have put a damper on real estate.

Just as the Admiral was going, Ward (of the Intelligence) crossed over with a nasty little damper.

It was such a damper as to be most mortifying to an enthusiastic girl, and she drew into herself in a moment.

His friend promised to look after mother and me, but somehow the philanthropist put a damper on the promise.

The passageway was growing damper; water trickled down the walls and gathered in fetid pools on the floor.

A damper seemed to have been placed on all their spirits, and the flow of conversation was sluggish and dull.

But there was a per contra, which acted as a damper to his joy, on his perceiving that both were beset with sharp spines.

In pleistocene days the earth's climate was evidently much damper than at present.