Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make angry; irritate.
- intransitive verb To cause (someone) to go mad; drive to madness.
- intransitive verb To become infuriated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become mad; act as if mad.
- To make mad; excite violently; enrage; craze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become mad; to act as if mad.
- transitive verb To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze.
- transitive verb To make very angry; to enrage; to excite violently with passion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
angry . - verb To make
insane ; toinflame withpassion . - verb obsolete To become
furious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make mad
- verb drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves
- verb cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
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Examples
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The new "madden" concept is hot. « fredoland fredoland
fredo: @mchammer nice work today at @dancejam! The new "madden" concept is hot. « fredoland 2008
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It is the death of an unexceptionable mother in service of the state that brings to the poem's surface such resistant words as "madden" and "rebel."
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It irritated me, maddened me, as nothing else under the sun could irritate or madden me.
MOON-FACE 2010
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Tagged: art · illustration · matt madden · minicomics
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It is “an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good,” wrote Time magazine in 1971, adding that the khamsin can “madden men,” cause car accidents, and increase crime rates by as much as 20 percent.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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It is “an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good,” wrote Time magazine in 1971, adding that the khamsin can “madden men,” cause car accidents, and increase crime rates by as much as 20 percent.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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It would be ironic if he was played the first madden football game. kyle
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brett Farve playing NES on the day he was drafted 2009
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But the other day i was kind of desperate to get madden 10, so i traded in my old ps2/viva pinata/GTA IV/Orange box to Gamestop.
Divestiture SVGL 2009
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The need to better engage employees is especially crucial during a recession, when mantras such as "do more with less" can madden employees who must pick up extra duties after their colleagues are laid off, but who are offered no tangible financial incentive to innovate.
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Articles like this madden me because I think they miss the big picture, or perhaps are even ignoring it purposefully.
Jason Pinter: Why Men Don't Read: How Publishing is Alienating Half the Population 2010
tbtabby commented on the word madden
Also a name that sends self-proclaimed "hardcore gamers" into conniption fits.
March 19, 2009