Category:Sadden

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

Defn: 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.

Sadden Sad"den, v. i.

Defn: to become, or be made, sad. Tennyson.