Disgust vs Madden - What's the difference?
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To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
To make angry.
To make insane; to inflame with passion.
(obsolete) To become furious.
* {{quote-book, year=1855, title=Westward Ho!, author=Charles Kingsley
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1870, title=Irish folk lore, author=John O'Hanlon, page=71
, passage=And as he maddened at the thought, honest Fergus, too, forgot himself, and added in an excited strain, " I wish one end o' the hog's puddin' was sthuck in yer nose, you foolish craythur!"}}
As verbs the difference between disgust and madden
is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while madden is to make angry.As a noun disgust
is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.As a proper noun Madden is
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English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.
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