- 1. v. t. To make sad. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. To render heavy or cohesive. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth. Source: opted
- 4. v. t. To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. Source: opted
- 5. v. i. To become, or be made, sad. Source: opted
- 6. v. make unhappy Source: wordnet
- 7. v. come to feel sad Source: wordnet
- 8. 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. To become, or be made, sad. Tennyson. Source: webster
- 9. To make sad. Specifically:(a) To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.]Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it dothto clay lands. Mortimer. Source: adambom
- 10. v:100 v. make unhappy v. come to feel sad Source: ecdict
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