transitive. To disturb or overthrow the mental balance of, impair the power of judgement of (a person's mind); to make mad or crazy. Formerly…

transitive. To make mad; to madden, make insane; †to make foolish (obsolete); †to bewilder, stupefy, daze (obsolete); to infuriate, enrage. Now…

transitive. To disturb or upset (a person's mind, mental faculties, etc.). Now rare.

literal.

To set or put ‘beside oneself’; to bereave of one's wits. Obsolete. rare.

To impair in intellect; to render insane, drive mad, distract. Usually in past participle: Insane, mad, deranged. crazy, n. (Now the ordinary sense.)

†to face (a person) out of: to exclude shamelessly from; to bully out of. Obsolete.

transitive. To make demented, drive mad.

To derange or disorder in brain or mind; to render insane.

figurative. with object (the health or strength of) a person, his body or mind.

To derange the mind or intellect of; to render insane, drive mad. Obsolete in literal sense: cf. 5.

The action of mad, v.; madness; mad behaviour. By the 19th cent., only in phrases (archaic or regional) to go (also †run, set) a-madding (or †on ma…

transitive. To deprive of wit or wits.

transitive. To make unsound or insane.

transitive. To put into Bedlam; hence to drive mad.

transitive. = dement, v.1

figurative (from the consequence of cracking the skull): To injure (the brain); to render of unsound mind. Cf. cracked, adj. 5.

transitive. To deprive of reason.

transitive. To make mad, to madden.

transitive. To throw into a state of frenzy or stupor. Only in passive. Obsolete.

transitive. To disturb (a person) mentally or physically; to discompose; to make ill, esp. to upset (a person's stomach).

transitive. To make mad; to drive out of one's mind; to excite to frenzy or uncontrollable anger. Also, in weakened sense: to irritate, annoy, vex.

transitive. To make mad; to confuse in mind, bewilder.

transitive. To make insane. Also absol. or intransitive. To cause insanity.

To disorder the mind or brain of; to unsettle the reason of.

to moon-strike.

up the wall: angry, furious; distraught, mad, crazy; esp. in phrases to climb up the wall, run up the wall: to become very angry or distraught; to d…