0 past simple and past participle of sadden
1 to make someone sad:
[ + to infinitive ] It saddens me to think that we'll never see her again.
We are deeply saddened by this devastating tragedy.
They are appropriately saddened by her tremendous health problems and her unfortunate lack of familial support.
I'm really rather saddened that this is the way the debate is going.
I am deeply saddened that this truly good man is no longer with us.
You say your brother was saddened that his monks could not be perfectly instructed.
He was continually saddened by such discoveries.
It served as a merry way of binding a company together, as a virtuous tutor and above all as a banisher of melancholy for saddened souls.
Scientific fraud of course occurs, but when it does, colleagues are genuinely saddened, and mystified about how the fraudsters thought they could get away with it.
I was saddened that its director-general, who began with such promise, resigned after nine months.
