Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "mal" is om iemand uiters kwaad of gefrustreerd te word of te veroorsaak dat hulle beheer oor hul gedrag of emosies verloor. Dit kan ook beteken om iemand kranksinnig of geestelik onstabiel te maak.
On a slope to the left there was a long row of guns, gruff and maddened, denouncing the enemy, who, down through the woods, were forming for another attack in the pitiless monotony of conflicts.
She was spared the sin of such a prayer for, maddened at his disappointment, and excited at the sight of blood, the Huron mercifully drove his tomahawk into her own brain.
Villefort, maddened with horror, stepped back to the threshhold of the door, fixing his eyes on the corpse.
Angry, Estienne glared back at Jack who maddened him even further by joining the laughing crowd.
The flow of blood might be likened to the outbreaking of a torrent and as the natives became heated and maddened by the sight, many among them even kneeled to the earth, and drank freely, exultingly, hellishly, of the crimson tide.
Even games that involved running from maddened birds.
I suppose it was the unexpected nature of my loss that maddened me.
Diverted from his object by this interruption, and maddened by the murder he had just witnessed, Magua buried his weapon in the back of the prostrate Delaware, uttering an unearthly shout as he committed the dastardly deed.
The maddened horse gained twenty toises, and came up within pistol-shot of Fouquet.
He was a man and a monstrosity, as fearful a thing of fear as ever gibbered in the visions of a maddened brain.
