madder
To dye with madderTo dye with madder.
» Tom got even madder.
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1 senses(rare)To dye with madder.
- color a moderate to strong red
Examples
6 sentencesTom got even madder.
Tom is madder than a hatter.
Ziri's father was even madder than him.
A madman gets madder when you talk reason to him.
When the sun sets, the sky is died a beautiful madder red.
Origin
From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from PrFrom Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ (compare Swedish måra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *modʰro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modrъ (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).
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Forms
madders, maddering, maddered, madderedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.