sadden
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sadden
- /ˈsædən/
Rhymes with -ædən
Where it comes from
From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad + -en.
verb saddens · saddening · saddened
- To make sad or unhappy. It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.
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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: […]
Similar: get a sad on, unhappy, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven, bleed
- 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.
- 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.
Similar: aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset · Opposite: gladden
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verb
Similar: aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset · Opposite: gladden
Translations
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verb transitive: make sad or unhappy
| Español | apenar, entristecer, contristar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 슬프게 하다 seulpeuge hada |
| Português | entristecer |
| Français | attrister |
| Deutsch | betrüben |
| Italiano | intristire, rattristare, rattristire |
| Ελληνικά | λυπώ lypó |
| Română | întrista, mâhni |
| Русский | печа́лить pečálitʹ, опеча́ливать opečálivatʹ, опеча́лить opečálitʹ |
| العربية | أَحْزَنَ ʔaḥzana |
| עברית | העציב he'etzív |
verb intransitive: become sad or unhappy
| 한국어 | 슬퍼지다 seulpeojida |
|---|---|
| Português | entristecer |
| Deutsch | traurig werden, sich betrüben |
| Italiano | rattristarsi, intristire |
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title = {sadden},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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