sadden

English

Etymology

From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsædən/

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• Rhymes: -ædən

Verb

sadden (third-person singular simple present saddens, present participle saddening, simple past and past participle saddened)

1. (transitive) To make sad or unhappy.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

   It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.

2. (intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.
   • 1999, Mary Ann Mitchell, Drawn To The Grave‎^[1]:

     Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.

3. (transitive, rare) To darken a color during dyeing.
4. (transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:

     Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.

Translations

make sad or unhappy

• Arabic: أَحْزَنَ‎ (ʾaḥzana)
• Basque: goibeldu
• Bulgarian: натъжавам (bg) (natǎžavam), опечалявам (bg) (opečaljavam)
• Catalan: entristir (ca)
• French: attrister (fr)
• Galician: magoar (gl), entristecer (gl)
• Georgian: დაღონება (daɣoneba), დამწუხრება (damc̣uxreba), დასევდიანება (dasevdianeba).
• German: betrüben (de)
• Hungarian: elszomorít (hu)
• Ido: chagrenigar (io)
• Indonesian: memilukan (id)

• Italian: intristire, rattristare (it), rattristire
• Korean: 슬프게 하다 (seulpeuge hada)
• Maori: whakaaroha, whakapāhi, whakakiwakiwa, whakahinapōuri
• Occitan: entristesir
• Oromo: gaddisiisuu
• Polish: smucić (pl) impf, zasmucać (pl) impf, zasmucić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: entristecer (pt)
• Romanian: întrista (ro), mâhni (ro)
• Russian: печа́лить (ru) (pečálitʹ), опеча́ливать (ru) impf (opečálivatʹ), опеча́лить (ru) pf (opečálitʹ)
• Spanish: apenar (es), entristecer (es), contristar (es)
• Turkish: üzmek (tr)

become sad or unhappy

• Basque: goibeldu
• Bulgarian: натъжавам се (natǎžavam se), опечалявам се (opečaljavam se)
• Catalan: entristir-se (ca)
• German: traurig werden, betrüben (de)

• Korean: 슬퍼지다 (seulpeojida)
• Maori: whakapāhi

Anagrams

• dedans, desand, sanded

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsadːden/

Verb

sadden

1. first-person singular past indicative of saddit