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To sadden someone is to make them feel sad. Bad news can sadden a whole town. A film can sadden you. You can also use it with no object: her face saddened means her face became sad. It is a little more formal and a little more written than “make sad.” In everyday talk, people more often say “it made me sad” or “I felt sad.” You will meet sadden in stories, news, and careful writing. It has nothing to do with a horse’s saddle — that is a different word.
使難過、使傷心
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
saddenverb/ˈsædən/
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To make sad or unhappy.
- It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.
- The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
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rareTo become sad or unhappy.
- He saddens, all the magic light Dies off at once from bower and hall, And all the place is dark, and all The chambers emptied of delight: […]
- Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.
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rareTo darken a color during dyeing.
- Curve (E) is seen at a glance to represent green saddened down to its fifth shade, and reduced with white to its fourth tint.
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To render heavy, hard, or cohesive; to compress or thicken.
- Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.
- ... the soil below will, instead of being brought up, be trampled and saddened.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。