badden

See also: bädden

English

Etymology

From bad +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ædən

Verb

badden (third-person singular simple present baddens, present participle baddening, simple past and past participle baddened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To become or make bad (all senses).
   • 1985, Gordon Burgett, Query letters, cover letters: how they sell your writing, page 182:

     From then on it's downhill to the California coastal town of Carpinteria, a few miles south of President Reagan's summer White House. Why would any sane human undertake this vertical torture? And why in backlands California far from the baddening crowds?

   • 2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology:

     I'm trying to badden up my image, like that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is trying to do.

Anagrams

• banded