“Where Nira and Honey had gotten such expensive things, she never asked, lest she madden them.”
“Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans.”
“Do you think madden made a genuine contribution to the culture of the period with his nightclubs?”
mad
(obsolete, intransitive) To be or become mad. [14th-19th c.]