ungladden
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ungladden (third-person singular simple present ungladdens, present participle ungladdening, simple past and past participle ungladdened)
- (transitive, nonce word) To take the gladness from.
- 1903, Ambrose Bierce, From Virginia to Paris:
- Removed to alien scenes, amid the strife
Of urban odors to ungladden life […]