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Sadden
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To make sad. Specifically:
2. To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.
3. To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.
4. To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Pope.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To become, or be made, sad. Tennyson.