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# sadden

«sadden» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make someone feel sad** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (sadden, saddens, saddened, saddening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone feel sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#m1)

2) (old) To become sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In news and formal talk «we are saddened to hear» is a polite way to say people are very sad, often after a death or disaster. In stories it shows feelings. Phrases: «deeply saddened», «saddened to hear», «it saddens me».

### examples

- We were saddened to hear that our teacher was leaving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x1)
- It saddens me when people drop litter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x2)
- The news of the fire saddened the whole town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x3)
- The school was deeply saddened by the loss of a pupil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x4)
- Her tears saddened her little brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x5)
- The end of the film saddened everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x6)
- The days passed slowly to Muffette, in spite of her brave efforts to occupy herself and not to sadden other people by her complaints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: saddened (double «d»). Often passive: «be saddened by». Formal-ish; «make sad» is everyday.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sadden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.