badden

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See also: bädden

English

Etymology

From bad +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To become or make bad (all senses).
    • 1985, Gordon Burgett, Query letters, cover letters: how they sell your writing, page 182:
      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?
    • 2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology:
      I'm trying to badden up my image, like that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is trying to do.

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