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run mad

run mad verb: to go mad.

Verb

run mad (third-person singular simple present runs mad, present participle running mad, simple past ran mad, past participle run mad)

  1. (archaic) To go mad.
    • Sophia shreiked and fainted on the Ground—I screamed and instantly ran mad—.1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
    • They might have believed that the King had run mad.1894, Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

Forms of run mad

third-person singular presentruns mad
present participlerunning mad
pastran mad
past participlerun mad

Questions about run mad

What does run mad mean?
Run mad means to go mad.
What part of speech is run mad?
Run mad is a verb.
What is the past tense of run mad?
The past tense of run mad is ran mad.

Words near run mad in the dictionary

  1. run late
  2. run like a dry creek
  3. run like a top
  4. run lines
  5. run low
  6. run mad
  7. run nowhere
  8. run o' the mill
  9. run of house
  10. run of month
  11. run of paper

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