英和和英

読み方 はっきょう

名詞

Madness; insanity; lunacy; mental alienation; mental derangement:（=せる） mad; insane; lunatic; crazy; demented; bereft of reason:（=する） to go mad; to go crazy; to become insane; to be bereft of reason; to lose one's wits; to go off one's head; to go out of mind; to go out of one's senses; to lose one's senses; to lose one's faculties

用例

• 彼は発狂したのじゃないか
  Hasn't he gone mad?―lost his wits?

• （あまり挙動が変だから）発狂でもしはせぬかと思った
  I feared for his reason.
• 彼は発狂でもするかと思うほどくやしがった
  He nearly went mad with vexation―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Vexation nearly drove him mad.
• 発狂させる
  to drive one mad―drive one distracted―drive one to distraction
• 彼は失敗して発狂した
  His failure drove him mad.
• 彼は発狂でもしたような振舞だ
  He behaves like one possessed.
• 彼の熱心は発狂に近い
  His zeal verges on madness.