| 词汇 | dampen-spirits |
| 释义 | dampen someone's spirits collocation to make someone feel less happy: I didn't want to dampen his spirits.我不想给他泼冷水。 Even the rain failed to dampen the spirits of the fans inside the stadium. See dampen spiritnoun He refuses to let his illness dampen his spirits. We tried not to let the news dampen our spirits as we continued with our Christmas preparations. The negative reaction of the reviewers really dampened her spirits. The rise in interest rates has done little to dampen the spirits of property investors. Discouraging and putting off aversive dampen someone's enthusiasm dampener on something daunt daunting deterrence deterrent discourage discouragement discouraging disheartening dishearteningly disincentive emasculate emasculation pour/throw cold water on somethingidiom spoke take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom throw cold water on somethingidiom unencouraging |
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