Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sadden"
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) 1.7 (wn)
sadden
v 1: make unhappy; 'The news of her death saddened me' [ant: {gladden}]
2: come to feel sad [ant: {gladden}]
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