madden

English

Verb

madden (third-person singular simple present maddens, present participle maddening, simple past and past participle maddened)

1. To make angry.
2. To make insane; to inflame with passion.
3. (obsolete) To become furious.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!^[1], edition 1898 ed., page 353:

     The rascal saw his advantage, and began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he maddened, his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled, and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns.

   • 1870, John O'Hanlon, Irish folk lore^[2], page 71:

     And as he maddened at the thought, honest Fergus, too, forgot himself, and added in an excited strain, " I wish one end o' the hog's puddin' was sthuck in yer nose, you foolish craythur!"

Translations

make angry

• German: rasend machen
• Indonesian: membuat marah

• Korean: 화나게 하다 (hwanage hada); 분노시키다 (ko) (bunno-sikida)

make insane

• German: wahnsinnig machen
• Indonesian: menjadikan marah

• Korean: 미치게 하다

Anagrams

• damned
• demand