verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone was saddened by the news that housing is to be built on the fields beside Cliff Lane.
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It saddens me that there are people who go around vandalizing public places like this.
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Sometimes it saddened him to think that he was no longer young.
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Those of us who knew him are shocked and saddened by his death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It does sadden him, but he believes that Juice will maybe explain a few of the pressures kids are under.