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Maddening   /mˈædənɪŋ/  /mˈædnɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Madden  v. t.  (past & past part. maddened; pres. part. maddening)  
1.
To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze.
2.
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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"Maddening" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a tremendous crash. The roof over the main room had come smashing in! Instantly the fire roared louder; tongues of it began to lick through the walls. Wood popped, and the heat became maddening. One side of the room became a mass of flames. The imprisoned men began to wet their clothing with the ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens
... well-stored magazine. Our visit to this scene of suffering and disaster was more harrowing than it is in the power of words to express; the sights which met our eyes, and the reflections they gave rise to, were quite maddening, and could not but increase tenfold the feelings of animosity and desire for vengeance which the disloyalty and barbarity of the mutineers in other places had aroused in the hearts of our British soldiers. Tresses of hair, pieces of ladies' dresses, books crumpled and ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... was a murderess—or in sympathy with murderers. My arms fell from her. I drew back shuddering. I dared not look in her lying eyes, which cried pity when her base heart knew no mercy. Surely now I had solved the maddening puzzle which the character of this girl had, so far, presented to me. Yet the true solution was as far from me as ever. Indeed, I could not well have been further from ...
— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie
... time was dreary, long, and awful. The ringers were practicing in a neighbouring church, and the clashing of the bells was almost maddening. Curse the clamouring bells, they seemed to know that he was listening at the door, and to proclaim it in a crowd of voices to all the town! ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... triumph and delight to gratification and content, from the bitterest sense of frustration and peril to one of security; the uprush of those strange instincts which had lain dormant till roused by the knowledge that she was free at length from the maddening stupidity of social life, together with her recent, implicit self-dedication to a life in all things its converse: these influences were working upon her so strongly as to render her mood more ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance


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