madden

See also: Madden

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmædən/
• Homophone: Madden
• Rhymes: -ædən

Verb

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

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

Antonyms

• tranquilize

Translations

make angry

• Esperanto: kolerigi
• German: ^{(please verify)} rasend machen
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} membuat marah
• Italian: infuriare (it), urtare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 怒らせる (okoraseru)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 화나게 하다 (hwanage hada) , ^{(please verify)} 분노시키다
• Russian: бесить (ru) (besitʹ), раздражать (ru) (razdražatʹ), сердить (ru) (serditʹ), дразнить (ru) (draznitʹ), злить (ru) (zlitʹ), действовать на нервы (ru) (dejstvovatʹ na nervy), разъярать (razʺjaratʹ)

make insane

• Armenian: խենթացնել (hy) (xentʻacʻnel)
• Esperanto: frenezigi
• German: ^{(please verify)} wahnsinnig machen
• Greek: τρελαίνω (el) (trelaíno)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} menjadikan marah
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: stregare
• Japanese: 狂わせる (kuruwaseru)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 미치게 하다 (michige hada)
• Portuguese: deixar louco
• Spanish: enloquecer (es)

Anagrams

• damned, demand, manded

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• maddyn, mad, madde, made, medd, medde

Etymology

From mad +‎ -en (“infinitival suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadən/

Verb

madden

1. To be mad or insane; to be afflicted with insanity.
2. To be emotionally overwhelmed or consumed by mood or feelings.
3. To behave idiotically or stupidly; to display stupidity.
4. (rare) To make mad, crazy or insane; to madden.
5. (rare) To emotionally overwhelm.

Conjugation

Conjugation of madden (weak)

infinitive	(to) madden
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	madde	maddede
2nd person singular	maddest	maddedest
3rd person singular	maddeþ, maddeth	maddede
plural	madden	maddeden
subjunctive	present	past
singular	madde	maddede
plural	madden	maddeden
imperative	present
singular	madde
plural	maddeþ, maddeth
participle	present	past
	maddende, maddinge	madded, ymadded

Descendants

• English: mad (obsolete)

References

• “mā̆dden (v.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-09.