damper

Changes in the level of subsidies and feed-in tariffs can put a damper on activity.

Translation: the weather put a big damper on construction activity.

If anything, the idea of Kristen Stewart, expert wet blanket, only got even damper.

The rain here in Tampa, though not yet at tropical-storm levels, has put a damper on the now delayed convention.

Leno said he felt the same as he try to put a damper on any such talk at a post-roast press conference.

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.