Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to madden
Participle: maddened
Gerund: maddening
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | madden |
| you | madden |
| he;she;it | maddens |
| we | madden |
| you | madden |
| they | madden |
Perfect
| I | have maddened |
| you | have maddened |
| he;she;it | has maddened |
| we | have maddened |
| you | have maddened |
| they | have maddened |
Past
| I | maddened |
| you | maddened |
| he;she;it | maddened |
| we | maddened |
| you | maddened |
| they | maddened |
Pluperfect
| I | had maddened |
| you | had maddened |
| he;she;it | had maddened |
| we | had maddened |
| you | had maddened |
| they | had maddened |
Future
| I | will madden |
| you | will madden |
| he;she;it | will madden |
| we | will madden |
| you | will madden |
| they | will madden |
Future Perfect
| I | will have maddened |
| you | will have maddened |
| he;she;it | will have maddened |
| we | will have maddened |
| you | will have maddened |
| they | will have maddened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | madden |
| you | madden |
| he;she;it | madden |
| we | madden |
| you | madden |
| they | madden |
Perfect
| I | have maddened |
| you | have maddened |
| he;she;it | have maddened |
| we | have maddened |
| you | have maddened |
| they | have maddened |
Imperfect
| I | maddened |
| you | maddened |
| he;she;it | maddened |
| we | maddened |
| you | maddened |
| they | maddened |
Pluperfect
| I | had maddened |
| you | had maddened |
| he;she;it | had maddened |
| we | had maddened |
| you | had maddened |
| they | had maddened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would madden |
| you | would madden |
| he;she;it | would madden |
| we | would madden |
| you | would madden |
| they | would madden |
Perfect
| I | would have maddened |
| you | would have maddened |
| he;she;it | would have maddened |
| we | would have maddened |
| you | would have maddened |
| they | would have maddened |
Imperative
| you | madden |
| we | Let's madden |
| you | madden |
Verbs conjugated like 'madden'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'madden'
badden,
maiden,
mudden,
sadden,
adde,
addend,
balden,
garden,
gladden,
harden,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- awrath, gall, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get to, honk off, inflame, infuriate, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, offend, outrage, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, steam, enrage
- to render insane; to derange the intellect of
- becraze, craze, delirate, dement, dementate, drive someone crazy
- enrage
- anger, infuriate, inflame, craze, exasperate, irritate, annoy, provoke
Antonyms
- enrage
- pacify, soften, assuage, appease
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From mad + -en.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, published 1898, page 353:]
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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!" [1870, John O'Hanlon, Irish folk lore, page 71:]