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Originally Posted by gramicci101
In our case, the car oscillating up and down on its springs is damped by the strut. Dampen is an informal usage that has evolved recently. And is used more as a verb for getting things wet.
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Ah, thank you! I really bothers me that people have incorrectly used dampening so much that it has redefined the word... It's like funner, it's not a word and we shouldn't have added it to the dictionary just because people are too lazy to use proper grammar.