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Webster 1913 Edition
Sadden
Sad′den
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Saddened
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Saddening
.] To make sad.
Specifically: (a)
To render heavy or cohesive.
[Obs.]
Marl is binding, and
saddening
of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.
(b)
To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.
(c)
To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
Her gloomy presence
saddens
all the scene. Pope.
Sad′den
,Verb.
I.
To become, or be made, sad.
Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sadden
SADDEN
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make sad or sorrowful; also, to make melancholy or gloomy.2.
To make dark colored. Obs.3.
To make heavy, firm or cohesive.Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Obs.
Definition 2024
sadden
sadden
English
Verb
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.
- (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
make sad or unhappy
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become sad or unhappy