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Maddened

adjective

Marked by extreme anger. Synonyms: angered, enraged, furious, infuriated. "Furious about the accident" , "A furious scowl" , "Infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy" , "Could not control the maddened crowd"

Madden

verb

(past & past part. maddened; pres. part. maddening)

Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind. Synonym: craze.

Drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves.

Make mad.

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"Maddened" Quotes from Famous Books

... great ancestress, who feared little upon earth; but then, indeed, their adversaries have seldom charged the Puritans with cowardice in fight. Coming quickly to the council chamber he passed into the balcony, which overhung the kneeling regiment and the armed and maddened crowd, and he spoke with such calmness and courage that even then he was obeyed. He promised that justice should be done and he commanded the people to disperse. Preston and his men were at once surrendered to the authorities to await ...

— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

... Jew—the man who knew. He knew that I—that I, who patronised him, was a person to stand well with because of my—my sister's hold over de Mersch. I wasn't, of course, but you can't understand how the whole thing maddened me all the same. I hated the world—this world of people who whispered and were whispered to, of men who knew and men who wanted to know—the shadowy world of people who didn't matter, but whose eyes and voices were all round one and did somehow matter. ...

— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... it time to go, I sought my friend, and found him talking to her in a corner. I approached and waited. They were discussing the latest east-end murder. A drunken woman had been killed by her husband, a hard-working artizan, who had been maddened by the ruin ...

— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome

... the waters to the seaward of the reef, the two Terrans on that barrier itself, and between them and the shore the wild melee of maddened salkars. Ross started. The sonic warning which had been pulsing steadily against his skin cut off sharply. The broadcast in the bay had been silenced! This was the time to move, but no swimmer could last in the ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... Some, while their brothers harried the kill, had lain to one side and rested. The full-stretched impress of their bodies in the snow was as perfect as though made the moment before. One wolf had been caught in a wild lunge of the maddened victim and trampled to death. A few bones, ...

— Children of the Frost • Jack London

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