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UK
/ɡlˈædən/
]
[ US /ˈɡɫædən/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫædən/ ]
VERB
- become glad or happy
- make glad or happy
How To Use gladden In A Sentence
- I wonder what trinket or snippet of insincere flattery might gladden their hearts.
- I came away with a gladdened heart and a burning desire to lobby the body corporate of my work building to donate an unused display cabinet for similar gallery concept. Unexpected pleasures
- Huckleberries flourish on the timbered slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a gravelly stretch or slope. Wild Life on the Rockies
- A comment left on Lex's post certainly gladdens my heart.
- Mine is not a heart to be gladdened by the sight of a drum on every seat. Times, Sunday Times
- When Nur al-Din foregathered with his mother and father, they were gladdened in each other with the utmost gladness and care and affliction ceased from them, whilst his parents joyed no less in the Princess Miriam and honoured her with the highmost honour. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Who sat anarchically at a dallas real estate for sale, gladdened a authoritarianism, and for the inexhaustibly sphenoid clingfish vespidae to the sum of reinvigorated sphenoid we are spectacularly aesthetic besotted. Rational Review
- 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
- Would her sparkle have brightened my days, her wit and humour gladdened my heart?
- His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile. Boing Boing