sadden

Verb

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. make unhappy“The news of her death saddened me”
  2. come to feel sad
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] (b) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth. (c) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. [1913 Webster]
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
Sadden \Sad"den\, v. i. To become, or be made, sad. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
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