Antonyms for gladden

Grammar : Verb

Spell : glad-n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈglæd n

Definition of gladden

Origin : c.1300, "to be glad;" 1550s, "to make glad;" see glad + -en (1). Earlier in both senses was simply glad (v.), from Old English gladian, Mercian gleadian "be glad, make glad."

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Example sentences :

And still more of this belated spring will gladden the eye in the florist's window.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

It was she whom all this honour and distinction were to gladden; the joy and profit were for her.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

Gladden your souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.
Extract from : « The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus » by Caius Valerius Catullus

Reflect that you may gladden and beautify your lives, or embitter them, according as you now act.
Extract from : « The Home » by Fredrika Bremer

Bearing to the neighboring town, fuel that gladden'd the hearth-stone.
Extract from : « Man of Uz, and Other Poems » by Lydia Howard Sigourney

Had he not said that she was made to gladden the heart of those on whom her glance did rest?
Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

What gladdened her before did not gladden her now, and what had once been a joy was now a sorrow.
Extract from : « Hope and Have » by Oliver Optic

Every evening I heard him, but no sight came to gladden my eyes.
Extract from : « Little Brothers of the Air » by Olive Thorne Miller

Ah, it was indeed a scene to gladden the heart of the father of one of them!
Extract from : « To Mars via The Moon » by Mark Wicks

You were made to gladden some woman's eye and fill her heart.
Extract from : « A Pessimist » by Robert Timsol

Synonyms for gladden

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