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sad·den

 (săd′n)
tr. & intr.v. sad·dened, sad·den·ing, sad·dens
To make or become sad.
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sadden

(ˈsædən)
vb
to make or become sad
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sad•den

(ˈsæd n)

v.t., v.i.
to make or become sad.
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sadden


Past participle: saddened
Gerund: saddening

Imperative
sadden
sadden
Present
I sadden
you sadden
he/she/it saddens
we sadden
you sadden
they sadden
Preterite
I saddened
you saddened
he/she/it saddened
we saddened
you saddened
they saddened
Present Continuous
I am saddening
you are saddening
he/she/it is saddening
we are saddening
you are saddening
they are saddening
Present Perfect
I have saddened
you have saddened
he/she/it has saddened
we have saddened
you have saddened
they have saddened
Past Continuous
I was saddening
you were saddening
he/she/it was saddening
we were saddening
you were saddening
they were saddening
Past Perfect
I had saddened
you had saddened
he/she/it had saddened
we had saddened
you had saddened
they had saddened
Future
I will sadden
you will sadden
he/she/it will sadden
we will sadden
you will sadden
they will sadden
Future Perfect
I will have saddened
you will have saddened
he/she/it will have saddened
we will have saddened
you will have saddened
they will have saddened
Future Continuous
I will be saddening
you will be saddening
he/she/it will be saddening
we will be saddening
you will be saddening
they will be saddening
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been saddening
you have been saddening
he/she/it has been saddening
we have been saddening
you have been saddening
they have been saddening
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been saddening
you will have been saddening
he/she/it will have been saddening
we will have been saddening
you will have been saddening
they will have been saddening
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been saddening
you had been saddening
he/she/it had been saddening
we had been saddening
you had been saddening
they had been saddening
Conditional
I would sadden
you would sadden
he/she/it would sadden
we would sadden
you would sadden
they would sadden
Past Conditional
I would have saddened
you would have saddened
he/she/it would have saddened
we would have saddened
you would have saddened
they would have saddened
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.sadden - make unhappy; "The news of her death saddened me"
impress, strike, affect, move - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
weigh down, weigh on - be oppressive or disheartening to
gladden, joy - make glad or happy
2.sadden - come to feel sad
feel, experience - undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
gladden - become glad or happy
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

sadden

verb upset, depress, distress, grieve, desolate, cast down, bring tears to your eyes, make sad, dispirit, make your heart bleed, aggrieve, deject, cast a gloom upon The cruelty in the world saddens me incredibly.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

sadden

verb
To make sad or gloomy:
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Translations
يُحْزِن
zarmoutit
gøre bedrøvetgøre ked af det
hryggja, verîa hryggur
întrista
zarmútiť sa
üzmek

sadden

[ˈsædn] VTentristecer
it saddens meme entristece mucho, me da (mucha) pena
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sadden

[ˈsædən] vtattrister, affliger
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sadden

vtbetrüben
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sadden

[ˈsædn] vtrattristare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sad

(sӕd) adjective
unhappy or causing unhappiness. She's sad because her son is ill; a sad face.
ˈsadness noun
ˈsadden verb
to make or become sad. She was saddened by her son's ingratitude.
ˈsadly adverb
He stared sadly at the ruins of his house.
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Looking gently at him again, she was surprised and saddened to see that there were tears in his eyes.
Those attractions in it, I had seen before; what I had never seen before, was the saddened softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before, was the friendly touch of the once insensible hand.
And the royal master of high latitudes sighs mightily, with the sinking sun upon his breast and the double-edged sword upon his knees, as if wearied by the innumerable centuries of a strenuous rule and saddened by the unchangeable aspect of the ocean under his feet - by the endless vista of future ages where the work of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind shall go on and on till his realm of living waters becomes a frozen and motionless ocean.
Fanny's heart was not absolutely the only saddened one amongst them, as she soon began to acknowledge to herself.
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"One would say that this happy return of the king to London saddens you, my friend; you who have done at least as much for his majesty as I have."