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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
madden .
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Examples
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The Media on the other hand is none of the above, so you see, it maddens them and drives them to such patheticly viciously attacks.
I'm 'saddened' by 'vicious attacks' on Palin, McCain says 2009
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What maddens me most is the lack of fact checking and calling these nimrods on their fabricated “BS” as soon as they spout it!
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Here Ms. Rubin puts her finger on something that maddens those of us who favor lower taxes and modest spending: the inherent bias in the way Washington debates are presented to the American people.
The Beltway's Favorite Tax Metaphor William McGurn 2011
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I know that flip-flopping on legislative pay raises maddens the electorate like nothing else, but isn't flip-flopping on genocide bad too?
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“Your taste maddens me, dreamed of it, fantasized about doing this tae you.”
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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I know that flip-flopping on legislative pay raises maddens the electorate like nothing else, but isn't flip-flopping on genocide bad too?
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Taut, yet messy, The Hurt Locker, entertains while it maddens.
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But the one that maddens me the most is a well-known author whose characters, when drinking, invariably "take a swallow" of whatever it is.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Cracktastic: Wanted’s Timur Bekmambetov Directing Moby Dick | /Film 2008
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Her decision to run as if she's already won the primary maddens me.
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