What's the difference between madden and sadden?

Madden


Definition:

  • (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.

Sadden


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sad.
  • (v. t.) To render heavy or cohesive.
  • (v. t.) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.
  • (v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
  • (v. i.) To become, or be made, sad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are deeply saddened," said Nyan Win, a spokesman of National League for Democracy.
  • (2) A statement from the club read: "Everybody at Sheffield United is extremely shocked and saddened to learn of the death of former player and manager Gary Speed.
  • (3) Maybe that's why it saddens me so much to say that with every passing generation, the original syntactical structure of a language diminishes further.
  • (4) A spokesman for Downing Street said: "The prime minister was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Gary Speed, who was greatly respected by football fans across the country both as a player and manager.
  • (5) In a statement issue by his office, British prime minister David Cameron said: "I am deeply saddened by the news that the bodies of the three Israeli boys kidnapped on 12 June have been found this evening.
  • (6) It said in a statement: "We are saddened and upset by the recent suicides at Foxconn.
  • (7) Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.
  • (8) I am truly saddened by Dick’s decision but I respect him for his honesty and for doing what he feels is right for the club,” said Sunderland’s owner.
  • (9) The NCYPE's chief executive, David Ford, said: "We are very saddened to hear this news.
  • (10) "I'm aware that a number of my friends will be saddened, or shocked, or shocked-saddened, over some of the chapters of The Catcher in the Rye.
  • (11) It still saddens me that we insist on having the changeover in August in the middle of school holidays and by far the busiest month for consultants to take their leave.
  • (12) Sports journalist Patrick Kidd said he was "immensely saddened" by Harding's "enforced resignation".
  • (13) Michelle Mitchell, charity director at Age UK, said they were greatly saddened to hear of the two deaths.
  • (14) Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, added: "We are shocked and saddened to hear the news that a teacher has been stabbed to death at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
  • (15) In his article, Smith writes: "What really saddens me, though, is seeing the Environment Agency's work and expertise in flood-risk management, internationally respected and locally praised in many parts of the country, being used as a political football for a good media story."
  • (16) Last week, Ward said he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new state of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza".
  • (17) Ghani immediately sacked Sharifi and said in a statement he was “deeply saddened” by the incident.
  • (18) I am saddened by what is happening to Yemen – the wars, the bombings, the destruction,” said Samir.
  • (19) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, who spoke on the phone with Marois in what was described as a "cordial first contact", said he was "angered and saddened" by the shooting.
  • (20) "I would not only be surprised but deeply saddened if I thought anyone came away from that video feeling taken advantage of, or compromised in any way," she wrote.