maddenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

madden (三人称単数 現在形 maddens, 現在分詞 maddening, 過去形および過去分詞形 maddened)

1. (transitive) To make angry.
2. (transitive) To make insane; to inflame with passion.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become furious.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!‎^[1], 1898 ed. edition, page 353:

     The rascal saw his advantage, and began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he maddened, his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled, and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns.

   • 1870, John O'Hanlon, Irish folk lore‎^[2], page 71:

     And as he maddened at the thought, honest Fergus, too, forgot himself, and added in an excited strain, " I wish one end o' the hog's puddin' was sthuck in yer nose, you foolish craythur!"

反意語

• tranquilize

アナグラム

• Dedman, damned, demand, manded