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madden

verb

1 what maddens people most is his vagueness:

infuriate, exasperate, irritate;

incense, anger, enrage, send into a rage, inflame, annoy, provoke, upset, agitate, vex, irk, pique, gall, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles, make someone's blood boil, make someone see red, get someone's back up;

informal aggravate, bug, make livid;

British, informal nark, get up someone's nose.

2 they were maddened with pain:

drive mad, drive insane, derange, unhinge, unbalance;

informal drive someone off their head, drive round the bend.

madden Oxford Dictionary of English