• IPA: /ˈsædən/

sadden (saddens, present participle saddening; past and past participle saddened)

1. (transitive) To make sad or unhappy.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard:

     Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.

   It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.

2. (intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.
3. (transitive, rare) To darken a color during dyeing.
4. (transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.

   • Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.

• French: attrister
• German: betrüben
• Italian: intristire, rattristare
• Portuguese: entristecer
• Russian: печа́лить
• Spanish: apenar, entristecer, contristar

• German: traurig werden, betrüben