(v. t.) To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
(v. i.) To become mad; to act as if mad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
(2) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
(3) The Milan goalkeeper then forced away Xavi's shot after Iniesta had wriggled free with some maddeningly good footwork.
(4) Also, this would have probably required some sort of voodoo, as Smith and Jennings are the same type of maddening player that should never be on the court together.
(5) The first series of Heston's Great British Food was maddening.
(6) The study has the purpose of evaluating, by the analysis of ten years surviving curves, the effectiveness of different types of interventions: Halsted radical mastectomy (98 patients), Patey radical mastectomy (245 patients) and Madden radical mastectomy (151 patients), quadrantectomy (260 patients).
(7) There was also stinging criticism of Father Peter Madden, the unit's Catholic padre, who visited the temporary detention facility (TDF).
(8) And those in his shadow cabinet and beyond remained resolutely – and maddeningly – on-message.
(9) It’s maddening that the administration constantly talks about the ‘irreducible’ number of Guantánamo detainees when it takes such slow steps to reduce the numbers itself,” Kebriaei said.
(10) In this wildly unpredictable season, one of the few constants has been Everton’s maddening inconsistency.
(11) During the campaign she maddened them by refusing to firmly back the remain camp.
(12) The main features of the lymphatic down flow ways of this colon segment justify extended exeresis operations as described by Madden and Welti: they also mention colon resection, removal in one block of the spleen and the caudal corporal portion of the pancreas with the lymph node stations of the pancreatico-lienal group invaded by cancer.
(13) Sophie-Jane Madden said on Tuesday: “About 8,000 people crossed yesterday from Serbia to Croatia.
(14) The patient should be 'rescued' from these bonds linking the self with the maddening objects.
(15) Paddy Madden and Gary McSheffrey fired the goals to strengthen the Iron’s league position.
(16) Neither carried quite the emotional whack of Madden's departure.
(17) One hundred and eleven cases underwent Auchincloss and Madden modified radical mastectomy (MRM), and the remaining 126 cases received Halsted radical mastectomy (RM).
(18) This maddened one of his booking agents, who exclaimed: “I’d talk to him and all he’d say was ‘bells’ or ‘ding, ding’!” Young was the originator of the term “bread” as an expression for money, and habitually called both men and women “lady”.
(19) In an episode watched by half a million UK viewers on Sky Atlantic in June, Madden was killed off savagely and with so little warning that some (honestly, there's video proof ) leapt off their sofas.
(20) The General Medical Council declined to comment on the forthcoming hearing into Keilloh but Peter Jennings, press secretary for the archdiocese of Birmingham, said of the criticism of Madden: "The Catholic church takes this matter extremely seriously.
Madmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Madman
Example Sentences:
(1) Pinel here states that one must "dominate agitated madmen while respecting human rights."
(2) Obama has trumpeted the Iran nuclear deal but in April this year told his final nuclear security summit in Washington that terrorist “madmen” obtaining and using a nuclear weapon is one of the greatest threats to global security.
(3) There is no real defence against madmen who kill, though it’s worth restating that London’s streets have probably never been safer places.
(4) The title track remains one of his most atmospheric compositions, and songs such as All the Madmen and The Width of a Circle were formidably inventive and accomplished.
(5) "We export like madmen to China, Latin America, Asia, India.
(6) Madmen dropping bombs in places, as if that solves anything.
(7) We’re ashamed of the fact that in Spain there are rich madmen who pay for the pleasure of killing wild animals such as lions.” Bryan Orford, a professional wildlife guide who has worked in Hwange and filmed Cecil many times, told National Geographic that the lion was the park’s “biggest tourist attraction”.
(8) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
(9) They're not evil madmen, they are writers and designers who want to explore the darker edges of existence.
(10) LaPierre said the government should implement his plan: "Thousands of our schools remain vulnerable to the evil intents of madmen," he said.
(11) William gave some warnings that Eden was becoming over-excited, while Rab Butler, then Lord Privy Seal in the Cabinet, told the political correspondent Hugh Massingham that he sometimes felt 'surrounded by madmen'.