bedamp means to cover with dampness; make damp; dampen. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From be- + damp. Compare Dutch bedampen.
verb
- To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.“Before I reached our lodgings, the dusk settled into streets, and a mist bedewed and bedamped me and I went astray, as is usual with me, and had to inquire my way; […]”