Madden vs Dement - What's the difference?
madden | dement |
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 a proper noun madden
is .As a noun dement is
one who suffers from dementia, who is insane.As an adjective dement is
(about a person) demented, insane, lunatic.As a verb dement is
.madden
English
Verb
(en verb)citation
citation