badden
badden verb: to become or make bad (all senses).
Verb
badden (third-person singular simple present baddens, present participle baddening, simple past and past participle baddened)
- To become or make bad (all senses).
- From then on it's downhill to the California coastal town of Carpinteria, a few miles south of President Reagan's summer White House. Why would any sane human undertake this vertical torture? And why in backlands California far from the baddening crowds?1985, Gordon Burgett, Query letters, cover letters: how they sell your writing, page 182
- I'm trying to badden up my image, like that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is trying to do.2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology
Forms of badden
| third-person singular present | baddens |
|---|---|
| present participle | baddening |
| past participle | baddened |
| past | baddened |
Origin of badden
From bad + -en.
Words that rhyme with badden
Questions about badden
- What does badden mean?
- Badden means to become or make bad (all senses).
- What part of speech is badden?
- Badden is a verb.
- What is the past tense of badden?
- The past tense of badden is baddened.
Words near badden in the dictionary
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