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Sadden   /sˈædən/   Listen
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Sadden  v. t.  (past & past part. saddened; pres. part. 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."
(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."



Sadden  v. i.  To become, or be made, sad.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sadden" Quotes from Famous Books



... the matter. If she had remained in England she would never have seen her dear father again. Here remembrances grew bitter and sad, until Jack's hand reached soothingly, consolingly out to her, and she brushed away her tears, so as not to sadden him still more. ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... ghosts—the silly, childish spooks about which we had been telling anecdotes—death would possess for him an added fear: the idea that his next dwelling-place would be among such a pack of dismal idiots would sadden his departing hours. What was he to talk to them about? Apparently their only interest lay in recalling their earthly troubles. The ghost of the lady unhappily married who had been poisoned, or had her throat cut, who every night for the last five hundred years had ...
— The Angel and the Author - and Others • Jerome K. Jerome

... do. The barometer has fallen lower, all of a sadden, than I ever saw it fall before. You may depend upon it, we shall have to look out for squalls before long. Just cast your eyes on the horizon over the weather bows there; it's not much of a cloud, and, to say truth, I would not have thought ...
— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne

... Is it aught to him That the nights are long and the days are dim? Can he be touched by griefs I bear Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair? Around his throne are eternal calms, And strong, glad music of happy psalms, And bliss unruffled by any strife. How can he care for my ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... against your will, it was not against mine, especially as you promise that you will give a reading as soon as I arrive. So I thank you for waiting my coming. The bad news was that Julius Valens is lying seriously ill, although even this should not sadden us, if we only think of what is best for him, for it will be much better for him to obtain as speedy a release as possible from a disease which is past all cure. No, the real sad news, or rather heartrending ...
— The Letters of the Younger Pliny - Title: The Letters of Pliny the Younger - - Series 1, Volume 1 • Pliny the Younger


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