Verb

(head)

(archaic) (madden)

Verb

(en verb)

To make angry.

To make insane; to inflame with passion.

(obsolete) To become furious.

* {{quote-book, year=1855, title=Westward Ho!, author=Charles Kingsley citation

, 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 citation

, 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!"}}

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (sadden)

Verb

(en verb)

to make sad or unhappy

* (Alexander Pope)

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

(rare) to become sad or unhappy

* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Mary Ann Mitchell, title=Drawn To The Grave citation

, passage=Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.}}

(rare) to darken a color during dyeing

to render heavy or cohesive

* Mortimer

Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.