adjective. In a state of frenzy; frenzied.

noun. Madness; folly; a vagary; a wild freak or prank.

Becoming mad; acting madly; distracted; raging; furious.

adjective. Affected with madness; raging; furious.

adjective. : Affected with madness; raging; furious.

verb. Present participle of mad.

"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.""

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