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badden en · VERB

Etymology

From bad + -en.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To become or make bad (all senses).
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
baddened Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
baddened Tense=Past lexicographic
baddens Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
baddening Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic