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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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sadden
v 1: make unhappy; 'The news of her death saddened me' [syn: {sad}]
[ant: {gladden}]
2: come to feel sad [ant: {gladden}]
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