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madden

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mad⋅den

[mad-n]
–verb (used with object)
1. to anger or infuriate: The delays maddened her.
2. to make insane.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become mad; act as if mad; rage.

Origin:
1725–35; mad + -en 1


1. provoke, enrage, anger, inflame; exasperate, irritate, vex, annoy.


1. calm, mollify.
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mad·den   (mād'n)   
v.   mad·dened, mad·den·ing, mad·dens

v.   tr.
  1. To make angry; irritate.

  2. To drive insane.

v.   intr.
To become infuriated.
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