Madden
['mæd(ə)n] or ['mædn]
Definition
(verb.) make mad; 'His behavior is maddening'.
(verb.) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves.
(verb.) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind.
Checked by Freda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
(v. i.) To become mad; to act as if mad.
Edited by Jacqueline
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Irritate, provoke, enrage, infuriate, exasperate, inflame, make mad, drive mad, turn one's head, lash into fury, make one's blood boil.
Typist: Marion
Examples
- It was such good fun to glance first at him and then at the other, and madden them both. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You madden me when you talk of the Diamond! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It's perfectly maddening to think of those lovely limes, sighed Amy, with the air of a martyr. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It's maddening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ha--ha--she laughed to herself, so frightened that she was trying to laugh it off--ha--ha, how maddening it was, to be sure, to be sure! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The situation to him must have been a maddening one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The confusion grew--their looks of sorrow changed to mockery; they nodded their heads in time to the music, whose clang became maddening. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Maddening church bells of all degrees of dissonance, sharp and flat, cracked and clear, fast and slow, made the brick-and-mortar echoes hideous. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It will be absolutely dangerous to torment me with these maddening scruples. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yo' may be kind hearts, each separate; but once banded together, yo've no more pity for a man than a wild hunger-maddened wolf. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What those treasures are they keep so secret that the court is maddened. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Crawley heavy cavalry was maddened by defeat, and routed every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The simple way she assumed her rights in Birkin's room maddened and discouraged Ursula. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The thought half maddened me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She faced him boldly, and the Greek, maddened beyond control, seized her by the wrist with a grasp like iron, yet she neither winced nor cried. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He adds to what I have to suffer; and he maddens Rachel if she only hears his name. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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