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/mˈædənɪŋ/ /mˈædnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Madden v. t. (past & past part. maddened; pres. part. maddening)

To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze.

To make very angry; to enrage; to excite violently with passion.

Madden v. i. To become mad; to act as if mad. "They rave, recite, and madden round the land."

adjective

maddening adj. Extremely annoying or displeasing.

Synonyms: annoying, exasperating, infuriating, vexing.

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Etymology of 'Maddening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maddening" Quotes from Famous Books

... would come over to her, and hold her in his arms while Mr. Archer, with maddening deliberation, glanced through the long typewritten document—but Henry had turned his back, and was gazing out of ...

— Rope • Holworthy Hall

... officer had left his seat yonder, and therefore dare not drop to the ground. My heart ached for the girl, and I longed to get my hands on that cur of a Le Gaire, yet might venture to approach neither. It was a maddening situation, but I could only stand there in the dark, gripping the rail, unable to decide my duty. Perhaps she did love me—in spite of that vigorous denial, perhaps she did—and the very possibility made ...

— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish

... cried Carthew. "I declare I had forgotten it." And he told of the voice in the telephone, and the maddening question: "Why did you want to buy the ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... human beings it would not in the least surprise me were we to find them in that condition; dying, too, one of the most dreadful deaths that man can be called upon to endure, a slow, lingering agony—the indescribable, maddening torment of long-continued ...

— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood

... with the world, in a sense, at her feet was maddening. The Doctor paced the floor roaring like an angry lion. "It may not do any good, but I've got to tell her what I think ...

— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey

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