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third-person singular simple present maddens, present participle maddening, simple past and past participle maddened
(transitive) To make angry. examples
(transitive) To make insane; to inflame with passion. examples
(intransitive, obsolete) To become furious. quotations
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.
1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, published 1898, page 353
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!"
1870, John O'Hanlon, Irish folk lore, page 71