Science Daily: Smelly socks and sweaty shirts: Why your laundry stinks, and how to stop it
Smelly socks and sweaty shirts: Why your laundry stinks, and how to stop it
Trainers, boots and work shoes all suffer when you wear them on repeat. Skip airing and the fabric stays damp. Skimpy socks make it worse. Dirt adds nutrients for bacteria. One long commute or school ...
damp implies a slight or moderate absorption and often connotes an unpleasant degree of moisture.
DAMP meaning: 1. slightly wet, especially in a way that is not pleasant or comfortable: 2. water in the air, in…. Learn more.
Something that's damp is slightly wet or soggy. If your shoes are damp when you enter your friend's white-carpeted house, you should probably take them off.
- slightly wet; moist: a damp cellar; a damp towel. 2. unenthusiastic; dejected; depressed: a rather damp reception. n. 3. moisture; humidity; moist air.
Damp usually implies slight and extraneous wetness, generally undesirable or unpleasant unless the result of intention: a damp cellar; to put a damp cloth on a patient's forehead.Humid is applied to unpleasant dampness in the air: The air is oppressively humid today.
DAMP definition: slightly wet; moist. See examples of damp used in a sentence.
noun a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.
Her forehead was damp with perspiration. My hair's still damp from the rain. The boxes were left outside in the damp. His hands were damped with sweat. Nothing could damp [= (more commonly) dampen, depress] his spirits.