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Maddened   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."


adjective
maddened  adj.  Filled with or indicating extreme anger.
Synonyms: angered, enraged, furious, infuriated.





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"Maddened" Quotes from Famous Books



... still more glad (should she not?) to learn that his subject was woman; but no, that had irritated her. What was perhaps even worse, she had been still more irritated on hearing that the work was rich in sublime thoughts. As a boy, he had maddened her most in his grandest moments. I can think of no ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... Frank's weight, once he had succeeded in nearly throwing Frank over on the sofa. Mr. Brookes had fled to the door, which, in his excitement, he failed to open, and the struggle was continued until at last, maddened by a most tight and tempting aspect of Berkin's thigh, Triss broke his collar, and in a couple of bounds, reached and fixed his ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... hint of deflection in one upon whom he had bestowed his favor maddened him. He had showered upon this ungrateful girl attentions the very husks of which would have sustained several English girls he knew through a lifetime of patient waiting. He recalled their unswerving loyalty with ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... rapidly. A still-comely woman, new to Porno, plucked smirking at the leader's sleeve; but his pace did not slacken, and she fell back, puzzled and afraid because of her feeling of something lifeless, dumb, machinelike in the man. Ahead, an isuan-maddened Earthling fell foul of a Venusian; a circle cleared in the mob, a ray-gun spat and missed, and the Venusian closed, the gleam of a skewer-blade playing around him. This was combat; this was interesting; but none of the squad's five men gave ...
— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore
... clung for a desperate moment, and then faded away behind amid the groans of his maddened supporters and the acclamations of ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant


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