Meaning & use
saddens
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Causes someone to feel sad or sorrowful.
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It saddens me to see the old theater standing empty and boarded up.
The news of his retirement saddens many of his longtime fans.
A note on using this word
Formed from the adjective sad plus the causative suffix -en, which turns adjectives into verbs meaning to make.
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