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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.
sad'n.
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)

  1. (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 onno 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:
      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.
    • Mortimer
      Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.

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Verb

sadden

  1. first-person singular past indicative of saddit