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half-mad

adjective

  1. not entirely sane
  2. extremely upset or distracted

    half-mad with fear

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

To his detractors, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole.

But Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary.

Pace Freud, artists do not have to be hard-living, half-mad or broke to make fine, authentic work.

Then she won, and went half mad with the joy and excitement, but the joy didn't last long.

I went out to-night to take a quiet walk upon this place, and the horrid brazen discord of these trumpeters set me half mad.

The little maid Anglore, half mad in her illusion, is none the less a very sympaPg 173thetic creation, and surely quite original.

Elise had been to Madame Degardy as good a friend as a half-mad creature, with no memory, would permit her.

I cannot describe my own sensations, for I believe I was half mad with triumph and excitement.

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