madden
verb (used with object)
to anger or infuriate.
had been maddening
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past perfect progressiveof madden.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He had been out of town the day before, and the delay had been maddening.
From The Halo by B. Martin Justice
He saw the opposition forging ahead with a resistless sweep which he and his co-workers could not stop, and it had been maddening.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
It had been maddening, as a hired hand, to be able to feel and touch this magic, and not to have it for his own.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
It had been maddening, no doubt, and rendered worse by his growing jealousy of De Artigny.
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish
