Madding

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Archaic In a state of frenzy; frenzied: "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife” ( Thomas Gray).
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  • adj. : Affected with madness; raging; furious.
  • v. Present participle of mad.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Affected with madness; raging; furious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Madness; folly; a vagary; a wild freak or prank.
  • Becoming mad; acting madly; distracted; raging; furious.
    • Word Usage
    "No one could accuse his crosswords of blushing unseen – not even when they were exiled to a distant outpost in the travel section for a few years – but the poem was more fitting than he knew: "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,/Their sober wishes never learned to stray,/Along the cool sequester'd vale of life/They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.""
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    raging    furious   
    Verb Stem
    mad   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adding    gadding    padding   
     
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