madden

American  

[mad-n] / ˈmæd n /

verb (used with object)

1. to anger or infuriate.

   The delays maddened her.

   Synonyms:

   annoy, vex, irritate, exasperate, inflame, anger, enrage, provoke

   Antonyms:

   mollify, calm

2. to make insane.

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verb (used without object)

1. to become mad; act as if mad; rage.

madden British  

/ ˈmædən /

verb

1. to make or become mad or angry

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Other Word Forms

• unmaddened adjective

Etymology

Origin of madden

First recorded in 1725–35; mad + -en ¹

Example Sentences

During testing, I ran into another maddening keyboard quirk, where I tapped the right letters but iOS spit out the wrong ones.

From The Wall Street Journal

If the plate umpire goes, with it goes one of baseball’s most entertaining/maddening presences–a puff-chested judge and jury, a baked-in villain, an essential part of the game’s pacing and flow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Except Paul isn’t magic; she waves her red flags high and proud, and the good folks at ABC, Hulu and Disney charged at them with the oblivious desperation of so many trapped, maddened bulls.

From Los Angeles Times

And still we were not allowed to sit: there was a last wait while the matron with maddening deliberateness checked off our documents against a list.

From Literature

Theirs is the maddening task of identifying dozens of notable artists sending radically different messages across a range of mediums, and then trying to make the work cohere in a single exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal