sadden

See also: sådden

English

Etymology

From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsædən/

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• Rhymes: -ædən

Verb

sadden (third-person singular simple present saddens, present participle saddening, simple past and past participle saddened)

1. (transitive) To make sad or unhappy.

   Synonyms: deject, depress; see also Thesaurus:sadden

   It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.

   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     The turmoil went on—no 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.

2. (intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.

   Synonyms: get a sad on, unhappy; see also Thesaurus:be sad

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto VIII:

     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: […]

   • 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.

   Synonyms: shade, tinge

4. (transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.

   Synonyms: deepen, thicken

   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

     Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.

Derived terms

• sadden up

Translations

make sad or unhappy

Arabic: أَحْزَنَ (ʔaḥzana) Hijazi Arabic: حَزَّن (ḥazzan), زَعَّل (zaʕʕal) Basque: goibeldu Bulgarian: натъжавам (bg) (natǎžavam), опечалявам (bg) (opečaljavam) Catalan: entristir (ca) Esperanto: ĉagreni (eo) French: attrister (fr) Galician: magoar (gl), entristecer (gl) Georgian: დაღონება (daɣoneba), დამწუხრება (damc̣uxreba), დასევდიანება (dasevdianeba). German: betrüben (de) Greek: λυπώ (el) (lypó) Hebrew: העציב (he'etzív) Hungarian: elszomorít (hu) Ido: chagrenigar (io) Indonesian: memilukan (id) Italian: intristire, rattristare (it), rattristire Korean: 슬프게 하다 (seulpeuge hada) Maori: whakaaroha, whakapāhi, whakakiwakiwa, whakahinapōuri Occitan: entristesir Oromo: gaddisiisuu Polish: smucić (pl) impf, zasmucać (pl) impf, zasmucić (pl) pf Portuguese: entristecer (pt) Romanian: întrista (ro), mâhni (ro) Russian: печа́лить (ru) (pečálitʹ), опеча́ливать (ru) impf (opečálivatʹ), опеча́лить (ru) pf (opečálitʹ) Spanish: apenar (es), entristecer (es), contristar (es) Turkish: üzmek (tr)

become sad or unhappy

Basque: goibeldu Bulgarian: натъжавам се (natǎžavam se), опечалявам се (opečaljavam se) Catalan: entristir-se (ca) German: traurig werden, betrüben (de) Italian: rattristarsi (it), intristire Korean: 슬퍼지다 (seulpeojida) Maori: whakapāhi Portuguese: entristecer (pt) Turkish: üzülmek (tr)

Anagrams

• dedans, desand, sanded

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsadːden/

Verb

sadden

1. first-person singular past indicative of saddit