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go mad

go mad verb: to become insane.

Verb

go mad (third-person singular simple present goes mad, present participle going mad, simple past went mad, past participle gone mad)

  1. (intransitive) To become insane.
    • I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time.1941, Virginia Woolf, suicide note
    Synonyms:
    go crazy, go nuts
  2. (informal, intransitive, typically followed by "and", plus a second verb) To do something extravagant.
    • Let's go mad and have a bottle of wine with our lunch.
    • Here's fifty pounds in case you see anything nice to buy, but don't go mad.
  3. (informal, intransitive, usually) To reach an excessive or ridiculous level.
    • Why should we ban controversial speakers from college grounds? Surely that's political correctness gone mad?

go mad meaning in Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada

go mad in Marathi

to go mad; to become insane
वेड लागणे veḍa lāgaṇe

go mad in Malayalam

lose one's temper, get in a rage, rant and rave
കോപംകൊണ്ടു ഭ്രാന്താകുക, ഭ്രാന്തുപിടിക്കുക, വെറിപിടിക്കുക, ക്ഷോഭിക്കുക, കോപാകുലനാകുക, ഉഗ്രമായ കോപം ഉണ്ടാകുക

go mad in Kannada

ತಲೆಕೆಡು, ತಲೆಗೆಡು, ತಲೆಹುಳಿ

Synonyms of go mad

Forms of go mad

third-person singular presentgoes mad
present participlegoing mad
pastwent mad
past participlegone mad

Questions about go mad

What does go mad mean?
Go mad means to become insane.
What is go mad in Marathi?
Go mad in Marathi is वेड लागणे (veḍa lāgaṇe). See Go mad meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is go mad?
Go mad is a verb.
What is the past tense of go mad?
The past tense of go mad is went mad.

Words near go mad in the dictionary

  1. go kaflooey
  2. go large
  3. go left
  4. go like a dream
  5. go long
  6. go mad
  7. go mental
  8. go missing
  9. go moggy
  10. go nap
  11. go nap on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go mad (page history and authors); वेड लागणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); go mad (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); go mad (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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