sadden

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsædən/
• Rhymes: -ædən

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

1. (transitive) To make sad or unhappy.
   • Alexander Pope

     Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

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

2. (intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.
   • 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.
4. (transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.
   • Mortimer

     Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.

• dedans, desand, sanded

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsadːden/

sadden

1. first-person singular past indicative of saddit