Badden
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To become or make bad (all senses). ambitransitive
"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?"
Example
More examples"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?"
Etymology
From bad + -en.
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