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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



... taste of blood had acted like the maddening first sip of wine to a dipsomaniac long-deprived. Punctuated by deafening roar, the brute's assaults grew in fury. My inadequate defense of only one hand left me vulnerable before claws and fangs. But I dealt out dazing retribution. Mutually ensanguined, we struggled ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... The maddening song of the mosquitoes was always with him. Only when he slept did he escape from it. The heavy gloves, the netting, the smudge fires were ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... been visible had been passed by us in the dark. It now struck me, that the water spoken of by the natives at Yeerkumban-kauwe might be situated among these sand-hills, and that we were going away from instead of approaching it. The bare idea of such a possibility was almost maddening, and as the dreadful thought flashed across my mind I stood for a moment undecided and irresolute as to what I ought to do. We were now many miles past these hills, and if we went back to examine them for water, and did not find it, we could never ...
— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre
... up and burst into a loud harsh cackle of laughter. Whoop! he went, and doubled himself up with laughter. Whoop! Whoop! he went, and fell on the ground and writhed with laughter. He was in that state of intoxication when he could find no release from maddening self-consciousness. He knew what he was doing, he did it deliberately. And yet he was also beside himself, in a sort of hysterics. He could not help ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence
... in hand, above the prostrate bodies of Cassio and Roderigo, and as the sudden impulse to murder them strikes his brain, breathing out in a blood-curdling whisper, "How silent is this town!" his Bertuccio, begging at the door of the banquet-hall, and breaking down in hysterics of affected glee and maddening agony; his Lear, at that supreme moment of intolerable torture when he parts away from Goneril and Regan, with his wild scream of revenges that shall be the terrors of the earth; his Richard the Third, with the gigantic effrontery of his "Call him again," and with his whole matchless and wonderful ...
— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter


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