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maddenest

maddenest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of madden.

Meaning of madden

Verb

madden (third-person singular simple present maddens, present participle maddening, simple past and past participle maddened)

  1. (transitive) To make angry.
  2. (transitive) To make insane; to inflame with passion.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become furious.
    • The rascal saw his advantage, and began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he maddened, his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled, and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns.1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, published 1898, page 353

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Origin of maddenest

madden + -est

Questions about maddenest

What is maddenest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Maddenest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of madden.

Words near maddenest in the dictionary

  1. madden
  2. Madden-Julian oscillation
  3. maddened
  4. maddener
  5. maddeners
  6. maddenest
  7. maddeneth
  8. maddening
  9. maddeningly
  10. maddeningness
  11. maddens

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