madden

madden
v
1. derange, dement, unhinge, unbalance; craze, frenzy, distract, make or send [s.o.] mad, drive [s.o.] mad or insane or crazy, Archaic. mad.
2. enrage, infuriate, lash into a fury, whip into a frenzy, make [s.o.'s] blood boil, Inf. make [s.o.] see red; anger, incense, irk, raise [s.o.'s] ire or hackles, get [s.o.'s] back up, Inf. burn [s.o.] up, Sl. tee [s.o.] off, Sl. tick [s.o.] off, Brit. Sl. put [s.o.'s] monkey up; provoke, agitate, inflame, enflame, fire up; exacerbate, acerbate, envenom, embitter.
3. irritate, annoy, vex, pique, get on [s.o.'s] nerves, Chiefly U.S. rile, Inf. aggravate; exasperate, ruffle, roil, try [s.o.'s] patience; bother, pester, harass, hector, Sl. bug, Sl. hassle, Sl. drive [s.o.] nuts or bananas, Sl. drive [s.o.] up the wall; provoke, bait, badger, torment, bedevil, plague.
4. rage, rant, rave, rant and rave, fulminate, roar, bellow; seethe, sizzle, smolder, boil, stew, simmer, fume, stir, Inf. do a slow burn, Inf. steam or steam up, Inf. get all steamed up, Sl. work oneself into a lather or sweat or stew.

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