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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SADDEN, v.t. sad'n.
1. To make sad or sorrowful; also, to make melancholy or gloomy.
2. To make dark colored. Obs.
3. To make heavy, firm or cohesive.
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make unhappy; "The news of her death saddened me" [ant: gladden, joy]
2: come to feel sad [ant: gladden]

Merriam Webster's

verb (saddened; saddening) Date: 1628 transitive verb to make sad intransitive verb to become sad

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. make or become sad.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sadden Sad"den, v. i. To become, or be made, sad. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(saddens, saddened) If something saddens you, it makes you feel sad. The cruelty in the world saddens me incredibly. VERB: no cont, V n • saddened He was disappointed and saddened that legal argument had stopped the trial. ADJ: v-link ADJ • saddening ...a saddening experience. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

affect, aggrieve, beat down, cast down, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, deject, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, distress, grieve, knock down, lower, lower the spirits, melt, melt the heart, move, oppress, press, press down, reach, sink, soften, sorrow, touch, weigh down, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon