sadden
verb/ˈsædən/
Etymology
From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad + -en.
- inherited from saddenen
Definitions
To make sad or unhappy.
- It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.
To become sad or unhappy.
- 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: […]
- Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.
To darken a color during dyeing.
- Curve (E) is seen at a glance to represent green saddened down to its fifth shade, and reduced with white to its fourth tint.
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To render heavy, hard, or cohesive
To render heavy, hard, or cohesive; to compress or thicken.
- Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.
- ... the soil below will, instead of being brought up, be trampled and saddened.
- […]; the reason why hee left them in the close all the day was, because that hee woulde have the water sattle away, and the growndesomewhat saddened before hee woulde goe to field with them;[…]
The neighborhood
- synonymaggrieve
- synonymattrist
- synonymbegloom
- synonymbegrieve
- synonymbesorrow
- synonymgrieve
- synonympain
- synonymbring down
- synonymcome down on
- synonymcontristate
- synonymdarken
- synonymdash
- antonymgladden
- neighborbe sad
- neighborlament
- neighborlamentable
- neighborrattristare
- neighbordaunt
- neighbordespair
- neighbordeter
- neighbordisappoint
- neighbordiscourage
- neighbordissuade
- neighbordishearten
- neighbormove someone to tears
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA