Madding

Definition

mad / mæd / adj ( -dder, -ddest ) ၁။ (က) စိတ္မႏွံ႔ေသာ။ ႐ူးေသာ။ He was/went completely mad. ❍ Please turn the radio down—the noise is driving me mad! ❍ the mad scene in ‘King Lear’. (ခ) (infml esp derog ) မိုက္မဲေသာ။ ႐ူးေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ She does the maddest things—like dyeing her hair purple! ❍ You must be mad to go swimming on a day like this. ❍ We decided to go mad and buy a new car, even though we couldn't afford it. ၂။ ( infml ) (က) ~ about / on sth / sb အ႐ူးအမူး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ be mad on football/pop music ❍ He's mad about her (ie likes/loves her very much). (ခ) (following ns ) အလြန္စိတ္အား ထက္သန္ေသာ။ ဝါသနာပါေသာ။ ႐ူးေသာ။ a crowd of football-mad little boys ❍ at the age of 17 she was man-mad. ၃။ ~ ( with sth ) ( infml ) ကမူး႐ႉးထိုး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ကေယာင္ေခ်ာက္ခ်ား ျဖစ္ေသာ။ make a mad dash/rush for sth ❍ mad with pain ❍ The crowd went mad with excitement. ၄။ ~ ( at / with sb ) ( infml ) စိတ္ဆိုးေသာ။ ေဒါသထြက္ေသာ။ တစ္ယူသန္ ေသာ။ Don't be mad at / with me—it wasn't my fault. ၅။ ေခြး႐ူးျပန္ေသာ။ ❏ (as) mad as a hatter/a March hare [ IDM ] ( infml ) သြက္သြက္လည္ေအာင္ ႐ူးေသာ။ ❏ mad cow disease n [U] ( infml ) = BSE ❏ mad keen (on sb/sth) [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) အ႐ူးအမူး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ She's mad keen on sailing / on that new pop group. ❏ madly adv ၁။ အ႐ူးလို။ I've been rushing around madly all day trying to find the right clothes to wear on holiday. ❍ The horse galloped madly off along the road. ၂။ ( infml ) လြန္လြန္ကဲကဲ။ အ႐ူးအမူး။ madly excited / jealous ❍ She's madly in love with him. ❏ madness n [U] ၁။ စိတ္မႏွံ႔ေသာ အေျခအေန။ ႐ူးသြပ္ျခင္း။ စိတ္မႏွံ႔သူ၏ အျပဳအမူ။ His madness cannot be cured. ၂။ မိုက္မဲမႈ။ It is madness to go climbing in such bad weather.

Examples

1. You’ll think I’m mad – I’ve just left my job.
2. [be mad to do something] : You’re mad to spend so much money on clothes.
3. A mad scientist
4. She was completely mad.
5. He makes me mad
6. the way he keeps criticizing me all the time.
7. [mad at/with] : My boss is mad with me for missing the meeting.
8. There were people everywhere – it was all a bit mad!
9. [a mad rush/dash] : It was a mad rush to get the job finished.
10. Mom will be mad as a wet hen if we don't get home soon.
11. Your dad will be as mad as hell when he finds out you took his car.
12. I will be mad as hell if he gets here late.