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Like mad   /laɪk mæd/   Listen
adjective
Mad  adj.  (compar. madder; superl. maddest)  
1.
Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. "I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad."
2.
Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. "It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols." "And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities."
3.
Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." "Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace." "The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled."
4.
Extravagant; immoderate. "Be mad and merry." "Fetching mad bounds."
5.
Furious with rage, terror, or disease; said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
6.
Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. (Colloq.)
7.
Having impaired polarity; applied to a compass needle. (Colloq.)
Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. .
To run mad.
(a)
To become wild with excitement.
(b)
To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.
To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. "The world is running mad after farce."






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"Like mad" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first time in all my varied experiences that I had ever come upon a painter standing up to his armpits in a swift-flowing mill or any other kind of stream, the water breaking against his body as a rock breasts a torrent, and he working away like mad on a 3 x 4 lashed to a huge ladder high enough to ...
— The Man In The High-Water Boots - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

... investigating our camp. Just then a coyote's wild cry sounded from the distance. She lifted her sensitive nose and sniffed the air, then wheeled and glided into the deep shadows. Other coyote voices swelled the chorus. Hundreds it seemed were howling and shrieking like mad, when I dropped to sleep to dream I was listening to grand opera ...
— I Married a Ranger • Dama Margaret Smith

... proved only too true. Talk did begin to tell both in the homes and at the stores. One man, who had met the parson on a hurried trip to the city, declared that he was driving like mad, and hardly spoke in passing. Another related that when Tom Fletcher asked Billy about the box, the dying man pointed to the parson, and tried to speak. Though some of the more sensible scoffed at such stories as ridiculous, it made little difference, for they passed from ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody

... the distance. Pausing, he gazed at them interestedly, noticing that they were moving steadily instead of grazing. What this meant, he was at a loss to understand until of a sudden he saw three men on horseback emerge from the herd and, with arms waving, ride like mad to the head of the line and gradually change the direction of the ...
— Bob Chester's Grit - From Ranch to Riches • Frank V. Webster

... eulogistic and exaggerated praises of him; but I have now ample cause to admit that your enthusiastic description of this wonderful man fell far short of his merits. Your horses got as far as Ranelagh, when they darted forward like mad things, and galloped away at so fearful a rate, that there seemed no other prospect for myself and my poor Edward but that of being dashed to pieces against the first object that impeded their progress, when a strange-looking ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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