sadden
See also: sådden
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad + -en.
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sadden (third-person singular simple present saddens, present participle saddening, simple past and past participle saddened)
- (transitive) To make sad or unhappy.
- It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto VIII:
- He saddens, all the magic light
Dies off at once from bower and hall,
And all the place is dark, and all
The chambers emptied of delight: […]
- 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.
- 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:
- Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.
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make sad or unhappy
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become sad or unhappy
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