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gladden - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
intransitive verb synonym : please .intransitive verb
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Synonyms To comfort, gratify, delight, rejoice, animate, en-liven noun Iris fætidissima . See Iris , 8.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
intransitive verb transitive verb
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb transitive To cause (something) to become more glad .verb intransitive, archaic To become more glad in one's disposition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb verb
Etymologies
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From glad + -en .
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Examples
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. 2010
His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile.
Boing Boing 2009
One of the things I like most about minestrone is its sheer bulk: it's really a big bowl of carb-based joy, with a hefty garnish of vegetables to gladden the heartstrings of health.
How to cook perfect minestrone soup 2011
Over the next two years, the Rao government pushed through a collection of market-based reforms that would gladden the heart of any economic liberal.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
His speech to Demos today on an open society – the product of more than a year's internal discussion – was one to gladden the left-liberal's heart.
Nick Clegg can only deliver on this rhetoric with Labour | John Kampfner 2011
If she wrote these stories to gladden others, it seems they could not quite touch her own heart, and that may be because she never received the serious critical acclaim she wanted.
On Georgette Heyer « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
In some ways this federal Europe would gladden the hearts of the founding fathers of European integration.
2021: The New Europe Niall Ferguson 2011
If it does happen, there will be for the very first time in Europe Conservatives and Unionists representing all four parts of the United Kingdom as a single grouping in Brussels - that's a fact which will surely gladden every true Unionist heart.
Wales turns True Blue! O'Neill 2009
Cockerington Princess, champion of her own sex, also came to gladden our eyes, while the converting into stables of theretofore unused stone winery buildings went apace ....
Jack London's Old Sherry Building Converted to Horse Barn 2010
Sometimes, people and institutions change, and get better, and produce surprising results that gladden the heart.
Travails of a Washington sports fan Joel Achenbach 2010
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