English

Proper noun

Madden

1. A surname​.

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!, 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, 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

Anagrams

• damned
• demand