MADDENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maddened mean? 

• MADDENED (adjective)
  The adjective MADDENED has 1 sense:

1. marked by extreme anger

  Familiarity information: MADDENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADDENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by extreme anger

Synonyms:

angered; enraged; furious; infuriated; maddened

Context example:

could not control the maddened crowd

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)

 Context examples 

The thought of again setting pen to paper maddened him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He sprang up, and lashed right and left at the mares, who, maddened by the unaccustomed pain, hurled themselves on in a frenzy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sweet meaty taste, thin and elusive almost as a memory, maddened him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was a man and a monstrosity, as fearful a thing of fear as ever gibbered in the visions of a maddened brain.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Therefore, although every nerve in my body shrank from the whisky-maddened figure which I pictured in the room above, I still answered, in as careless a voice as I could command, that I was ready to go.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the same was true of the poetry he read which maddened him with delight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even with so formidable a guard and such fierce measures, the beaters-out, who had to check the forward heaves of a maddened, straining crowd, were often as exhausted at the end of a fight as the principals themselves.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes dropped from her blue eyes to her lips, and the sight of the stain maddened him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The refrain maddened him, and he tried to escape from it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)