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baddened

baddened is the simple past and past participle of badden.

Meaning of badden

Verb

badden (third-person singular simple present baddens, present participle baddening, simple past and past participle baddened)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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

Questions about baddened

What is baddened the simple past and past participle of?
Baddened is the simple past and past participle of badden.

Words near baddened in the dictionary

  1. Baddeley
  2. baddeleyite
  3. baddeleyites
  4. Baddeleys
  5. badden
  6. baddened
  7. baddening
  8. baddens
  9. badder
  10. badderlocks
  11. badders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baddened (page history and authors); badden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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