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UK
/ɡlˈædən/
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[ US /ˈɡɫædən/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫædən/ ]
VERB
- become glad or happy
- make glad or happy
How To Use gladden In A Sentence
- Obviously we can't promote all of the comments to the main section, but the fact that readers are leaving dialogue bits in the comments really gladdens our hearts.
- Gat lots of economics questions, and it gladdens our hearts.
- The sight of the flowers gladdened her heart .
- GRANVILLE; at the other, the dapper figure, with its indescribable air of old-fashioned gentlemanhood, the light of his smile shed impartially on the benches opposite, but his slight bow reserved for the MARKISS, as, leaning across the table, he pinked him under the fifth rib with glittering rapier -- this is a sight that will never more gladden the eye in the House of Lords. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891
- Mine is not a heart to be gladdened by the sight of a drum on every seat. Times, Sunday Times
- Under the streamlined hood of the four-wheeler, there was much to gladden the heart of the owner.
- They only stuck the blonde chick in there just to gladden the old woodies in Jesusland. Think Progress » Despite denouncing threats against Democrats, Fox and Friends broadcast e-mails rationalizing them.
- The angel Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety - fourth, beginning with the words "Have we not gladdened thy breast? Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
- That has to stand as one of the stranger things I've heard in the past few years, and it gladdens my heart if only because the level of sheer preposterousness in rock music has sadly fallen lately.
- You find that love is not sporadic, not individual, that it does not begin with you or end with you, that it does not dissociate you, and you do not warm to the world-organic kinship, you do not hear the overword of the poets and philosophers of all times, you do not see the visions that gladdened the star-forgotten nights of saints? The Kempton-Wace Letters