v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Maddened p. pr. & vb. n. Maddening. ] 1. To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make very angry; to enrage; to excite violently with passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become mad; to act as if mad. [ 1913 Webster ]

They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. filled with or indicating extreme anger.
Syn. -- angered, enraged, furious, infuriated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. extremely annoying or displeasing.
Syn. -- annoying, exasperating, infuriating, vexing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. mader, AS. maedere; akin to Icel. maðra. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Rubia (Rubia tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names from their colors, such as madder yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Field madder, an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling madder. --
Indian madder , the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in the East for dyeing; -- called also munjeet. --
Wild madder, Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A widely distributed natural family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs including coffee; chinchona; gardenia; madder; bedstraws; nd partridgeberry.
Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae, madder family -- [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. [1913 Webster]

The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged. Milton. [1913 Webster]

a. Somewhat mad. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]