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mad·den

(măd′n)

v. mad·dened, mad·den·ing, mad·dens

v.tr.

1. To make angry; irritate.

2. To cause (someone) to go mad; drive to madness.

v.intr.

To become infuriated.

mad′den·ing·ly adv.

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madden

(ˈmædən)

to make or become mad or angry

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mad•den

(ˈmæd n)

v.t.

1. to anger intensely; infuriate.

2. to make insane.

v.i.

3. to become mad.

[1725–35]

madden

Past participle: maddened
Gerund: maddening

Imperative
madden
madden

Present
I madden
you madden
he/she/it maddens
we madden
you madden
they madden

Preterite
I maddened
you maddened
he/she/it maddened
we maddened
you maddened
they maddened

Present Continuous
I am maddening
you are maddening
he/she/it is maddening
we are maddening
you are maddening
they are maddening

Present Perfect
I have maddened
you have maddened
he/she/it has maddened
we have maddened
you have maddened
they have maddened

Past Continuous
I was maddening
you were maddening
he/she/it was maddening
we were maddening
you were maddening
they were maddening

Past Perfect
I had maddened
you had maddened
he/she/it had maddened
we had maddened
you had maddened
they had maddened

Future
I will madden
you will madden
he/she/it will madden
we will madden
you will madden
they will madden

Future Perfect
I will have maddened
you will have maddened
he/she/it will have maddened
we will have maddened
you will have maddened
they will have maddened

Future Continuous
I will be maddening
you will be maddening
he/she/it will be maddening
we will be maddening
you will be maddening
they will be maddening

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been maddening
you have been maddening
he/she/it has been maddening
we have been maddening
you have been maddening
they have been maddening

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been maddening
you will have been maddening
he/she/it will have been maddening
we will have been maddening
you will have been maddening
they will have been maddening

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been maddening
you had been maddening
he/she/it had been maddening
we had been maddening
you had been maddening
they had been maddening

Conditional
I would madden
you would madden
he/she/it would madden
we would madden
you would madden
they would madden

Past Conditional
I would have maddened
you would have maddened
he/she/it would have maddened
we would have maddened
you would have maddened
they would have maddened

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Verb	1.	madden - cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind craze derange, unbalance - derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane; "The death of his parents unbalanced him"
	2.	madden - drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves bedevil, dun, rag, torment, frustrate, crucify - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
	3.	madden - make mad; "His behavior is maddening" anger - make angry; "The news angered him"

madden

verb infuriate, irritate, incense, enrage, upset, provoke, annoy, aggravate (informal), gall, craze, inflame, exasperate, vex, unhinge, drive you crazy, nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), drive you round the bend (Brit. slang), make your blood boil, piss you off (taboo slang), drive you to distraction (informal), get your goat (slang), drive you round the twist (Brit. slang), get your dander up (informal), make your hackles rise, raise your hackles, drive you off your head (slang), drive you out of your mind, get your back up, get your hackles up, make you see red (informal), put your back up It is close in here and the clock ticks to madden me.
calm, soothe, appease, pacify, mollify

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

madden

verb

1. To cause to feel or show anger:

anger, burn (up), enrage, incense, infuriate, provoke.

Idioms: make one hot under the collar, make one's blood boil, put one's back up.

2. To make insane:

craze, derange, unbalance, unhinge.

Translations

يُجَنِّن

dohnat k šílenstvírozzuřit

gøre rasendeophidse

rendre fou

megőrjítvadít

gera bálreiîan/brjálaîan

diventare pazzo far impazzire inviperire rendere pazzo

opprøre

dohnať k zúrivosti

çıldır makdelir mek

使发疯使狂怒

madden

[ˈmædn] VT (= infuriate) → enfurecer, sacar de quicio; (= make demented) → enloquecer
it maddens me → me pone furioso, me enfurece, me saca de quicio
a maddened bull → un toro enloquecido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

madden

[ˈmæd^ən] vt → exaspérer

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

madden

vt (= make mad) → verrückt machen; (= make angry) → ärgern, fuchsen (inf); it maddens me to think of the opportunity we missed → ich könnte mich schwarzärgern, wenn ich daran denke, was für eine Chance wir vertan haben (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

madden

[ˈmædn] vt (infuriate) → far impazzire, esasperare

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mad

(mӕd) adjective

1. mentally disturbed or insane. Ophelia went mad; You must be mad.

2. (sometimes with at or with) very angry. She was mad at me for losing my keys.

3. (with about) having a great liking or desire for. I'm just mad about Harry.

ˈmadly adverb

ˈmadness noun

ˈmadden verb

to make mad or very angry. The animal was maddened by the pain.

ˈmaddening adjective

likely to cause anger. maddening delays.

ˈmaddeningly adverb

ˈmadman – plural ˈmadmen: feminine ˈmadwoman – plural ˈmadwomen – noun

a person who is insane. He drove/fought like a madman.

mad ˈcow disease noun

a fatal disease of cattle, which can affect also humans who eat meat from infected cattle.

like mad

wildly, desperately, very quickly etc. struggling/trying/running like mad.

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It irritated me, maddened me, as nothing else under the sun could irritate or madden me.

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I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.

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She saw the carnivore brushed aside as he was almost upon her, and in the instant she realized that no substanceless wraith could thus turn the charge of a maddened lion with brute force greater than the brute's.

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When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken, At memories of foul disgrace.

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Our quiet life here maddens me; I can bear it no longer; I must go.

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The sickness -- the nausea -- The pitiless pain -- Have ceased, with the fever That maddened my brain -- With the fever called "Living" That burned in my brain.

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The cows jumped wildly over the five-barred barton-gate, maddened by the gad-fly; Dairyman Crick kept his shirt-sleeves permanently rolled up from Monday to Saturday; open windows had no effect in ventilation without open doors, and in the dairy-garden the blackbirds and thrushes crept about under the currant-bushes, rather in the manner of quadrupeds than of winged creatures.

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Sabin's side, her hand lightly resting upon his, her dark eyes full of inscrutable tenderness, maddened him.

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This maddened me, and I sat brooding for a time over the injuries I had suffered, and the cruelties which she I loved had endured for my sake, until my heart swelled and grew sore, and my teeth were clinched.

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His mother sat down in a chair, but a moment later sprang erect and delivered a maddened whirl of oaths.

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The refrain maddened him, and he tried to escape from it.

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And then the maddened bull came from beneath, and instantly Tarzan was transformed from a good-natured, teasing youth into a snarling, savage beast.