madden

Other forms of madden

past tense

maddenned·

present participle

maddenning·

third person

maddens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about madden

What does madden mean?

madden means "cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in madden?

madden has 2 syllables: mad-den. The stress falls on "mad". In IPA it is /ˈmædən/.

What is another word for madden?

Close synonyms include craze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is madden a common word?

madden is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.