Sadden : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Sadden	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Sadden
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sadden v make unhappy; "The news of her death saddened me" [ant: gladden, joy] come to feel sad Antonym(s): gladden
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sadden \Sad"den\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saddened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sadden \Sad"den\, v. i. To become, or be made, sad. --Tennyson.