sadden
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad + -en.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
sadden (third-person singular simple present saddens, present participle saddening, simple past and past participle saddened)
- (transitive) To make sad or unhappy.
- Alexander Pope
- Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- Alexander Pope
- (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.
- (transitive, rare) To darken a color during dyeing.
- (transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.
- Mortimer
- Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
- Mortimer
Translations[edit]
make sad or unhappy
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become sad or unhappy
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sadden
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