badden

present singular third person baddens · participle present baddening · participle past baddened · past baddened

1. ambitransitiveTo 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

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   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