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Madden   /mˈædən/   Listen
verb
Madden  v. t.  (past & past part. maddened; pres. part. maddening)  
1.
To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze.
2.
To make very angry; to enrage; to excite violently with passion.



Madden  v. i.  To become mad; to act as if mad. "They rave, recite, and madden round the land."






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"Madden" Quotes from Famous Books



... even, of a sister's innocent love. And that last miserable scene, on the eve of their projected voyage to India, when the maddened tyrant discovered Pierre Troubetskoi's long-belated letter, returned once more to madden her. Fraser had simply raged ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

... and ledes are used indiscriminately, but most frequently in the sense of men, people. Sir Frederick Madden has shown, from the equivalent words in the French original of Robert of Brunne, "that he always uses the word in the meaning of possessions, whether consisting of tenements, rents, fees, &c.;" ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 27. Saturday, May 4, 1850 • Various

... from me again. I was unjust: forgive me. Spare now to reprove Other words, other deeds. It was madness, not love, That you thwarted this night. What is done is now done. Death remains to avenge it, or life to atone. I was madden'd, delirious! I saw you return To him—not to me; and I felt my heart burn With a fierce thirst for vengeance—and thus... let it pass! Long thoughts these, and so brief the moments, alas! Thou goest thy way, and I mine. I suppose 'Tis to meet nevermore. ...
— Lucile • Owen Meredith

... in having a girl in one's eye," retorted Phil, disconsolately. "I declare, you all look so contented and so satisfied with yourselves and one another, that it's enough to madden a fellow, left out, as I am, in the cold! I shall go back to St. Helen's ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

... gods wish to destroy they first madden young," said the Honourable John Ruffin sadly. "But there's always Pollyooly; she may save you yet. I came to suggest that while I'm away in Buda-Pesth you should let Pollyooly and the Lump occupy that spare bedroom of yours. I don't like leaving them alone in the ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson


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