SADDEN

sadden

(verb) make unhappy; “The news of her death saddened me”

sadden

(verb) come to feel sad

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive) To make sad or unhappy.

(intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.

(transitive, rare) To darken a color during dyeing.

(transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.

Anagrams

• dedans, desand, sanded

Source: Wiktionary

Sad"den, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddened; p. pr. & vb. n. Saddening.]

Definition: 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, v. i.

Definition: To become, or be made, sad. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition