MADDEN

v. 1 infuriate, anger, enrage, incense, provoke, inflame, excite (someone) to (a) frenzy or rage, make (someone's) blood boil, raise (someone's) hackles, make (someone) see red, get (someone's) back up, drive someone crazy, Literary raise (someone's) ire, Colloq drive (someone) up the wall, Brit drive (someone) round the bend or twist, US tick (someone) off, burn (someone) up, tee (someone) off, bug, drive (someone) up the wall Their getting away with something like that maddened us all 2 irk, vex, pique, exasperate, irritate He has the maddening habit of affecting a lisp 3 bait, badger, torment, plague, bedevil, US rile, hassle The dog was maddened into attacking anything that moved