Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective filled with or indicating extreme anger.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
madden .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by extreme anger
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Examples
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His eyes dropped from her blue eyes to her lips, and the sight of the stain maddened him.
Chapter 11 2010
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The refrain maddened him, and he tried to escape from it.
Chapter 44 2010
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His eyes dropped from her blue eyes to her lips, and the sight of the stain maddened him.
Chapter 11 1908
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The refrain maddened him, and he tried to escape from it.
Chapter 44 1908
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The expression maddened the other beyond endurance, and his eyes danced the chill glitter of meditated violence, unrecking consequences.
'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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Tales of horror and outrage, such as maddened our own England when they reached us from Cawnpore, came day after day over the Irish Channel; and sworn depositions told how husbands were cut to pieces in presence of their wives, their children's brains dashed out before their faces, their daughters brutally violated and driven out naked to perish frozen in the woods.
History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860
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“I do not see that there is any claim at all,” he cried bitterly, as if the very word maddened him, “and I am not going to pamper him any more.
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Nathan Draper, 18, said that he was "maddened" at the actions of the Muslim demonstrators and praised the bravery of the soldiers and said they should be supported for risking their lives.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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But nevertheless this kind of maddened and hollow charade of bureaucracy continues to function in Israel, as well as Europe and America ... ceding ground time and time again to Islam.
Sultan Knish 2009
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But nevertheless this kind of maddened and hollow charade of bureaucracy continues to function in Israel, as well as Europe and America ... ceding ground time and time again to Islam.
Sultan Knish 2009
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