English Dictionary

sadden

/ˈsædən/

verb

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

The news of her friend's death saddened her.

意味（1）

(transitive) To make sad or unhappy.

1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot,[…], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:

意味（2）

(intransitive, rare) To become sad or unhappy.

Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.

意味（3）

(transitive, rare) To darken a color during dyeing.

意味（4）

(transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.

Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.