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😵 Wild or frenzied 🤯 To drive crazy
to madding

to madding

9.9
To make someone feel angry or nearly crazy
  • verb
  • /ˈmædɪŋ/
  • Archaic
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  • The continuous mistakes in the project were madding his supervisors.

Examples

  • What I think is especially madding about that is that doctors are never on time.

  • And the thing that's madding about this tragedy is that this is a policy choice.

  • And the thing that's madding about this tragedy is that this is a policy choice.

  • This is a huge like madding problem to debug because it's not reproducible generally.

  • Her constant interruptions during the meeting were becoming madding to him.

  • The delays in the delivery were so madding that he was losing patience.

Synonyms

to drive (someone) crazy
vsto madding
  • Informal
271 3.9

Make someone very annoyed or upset

suggests a more severe mental disturbance and archaic wording
to drive someone crazy
vsto madding
  • Informal
158 3.2

Make someone very annoyed or upset

expresses a stronger, archaic disturbance of the mind
to anger
vsto madding
114 1.0

To make someone very upset or annoyed

is archaic and focuses on extreme mental disturbance and fury
to enrage
vsto madding
68 3.7

To make someone very angry

is archaic literary and adds severe mental disturbance beyond anger
to make one's blood boil
vsto madding
  • Informal
6 7.0

To cause someone to feel very angry

is archaic literary and often implies deep mental disturbance

Antonyms

to calm
962 1.0

Make a person or animal less upset

to please
216 1.0

To make someone happy or satisfied

How Angry

to enrage
68 3.7
to madding
  • Archaic
9.9
to anger
114 1.0
to irritate
78 2.9
to annoy
246 1.0

Surface Forms

madd infinitive
madded past
madded past participle
madding present participle
madds third person singular

Morphology

madding = madden (transparent) = madden + ing

The verb form is the present-participle/gerund formation from 'madden' with '-ing', so the relation is straightforward.

Etymology

Madding as a verb also comes from mad and literally means 'making someone mad' or 'driving someone crazy', a use you see in older or literary writing to show extreme anger or disturbance.