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  • 21craze — krāz vb, crazed; craz·ing vt to make insane or as if insane <crazed by pain and fear> vi to become insane …

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  • 22madden — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. infuriate, enrage, incense, craze; drive mad, derange; make one s blood boil. See resentment. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. craze, infuriate, enrage; see anger 1 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To… …

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  • 23derange — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To disarrange] Syn. disorder, muss up, unsettle; see confuse , misplace . 2. [To upset] Syn. disconcert, perplex, drive insane, drive crazy, dement, madden, unsettle the reason of, craze, unbalance, unhinge, addle the wits,… …

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  • 24mad — {{11}}mad (adj.) late 13c., from O.E. gemædde (pl.) out of one s mind (usually implying also violent excitement), also foolish, extremely stupid, earlier gemæded rendered insane, pp. of a lost verb *gemædan to make insane or foolish, from P.Gmc.… …

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  • 25madding — action of the obsolete verb mad to make insane; to become insane (see MADDEN (Cf. madden)); now principally in the phrase far from the madding crowd, title of a novel by Hardy (1874), who lifted it from a line of Gray s Elegy (1749), which seems… …

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  • 26craze — v. & n. v. 1 tr. (usu. as crazed adj.) make insane (crazed with grief). 2 a tr. produce fine surface cracks on (pottery glaze etc.). b intr. develop such cracks. n. 1 a a usu. temporary enthusiasm (a craze for hula hoops). b the object of this. 2 …

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  • 27lo|co — lo|co1 «LOH koh», adjective, noun, plural cos, verb, coed, co|ing. U.S. –adj. Slang. crazy. –n. 1. locoweed. 2. a disease caused by eating this weed; loco disease. –v.t. 1 …

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  • 28turn the head — Infatuate, make giddy, make insane, make wild, overthrow the judgment of …

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  • 29madden — verb a) To make angry. b) To make insane; to inflame with passion …

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  • 30unhinge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. unsettle, derange, unbalance, craze. See insanity. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To detach] Syn. dislodge, disjoint, disunite; see remove 1 , unhitch . 2. [To upset] Syn. unbalance, disorder, derange; see …

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