Like Mad

Synonyms: Like Mad

Synonyms: like crazy (adv), like hell (adv), like sin (adv), like the devil (adv), like thunder (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Velocity	Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expressions using "like mad": rain like mad ♦ shout like mad ♦ work like mad. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "like mad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), me tërbim. (various references)

Arabic		‏مثل المجنون. (various references)

Bulgarian		като луд (like smth.). (various references)

Czech		jako šílený, šílenì (insanely). (various references)

French		comme un fou. (various references)

Hebrew		במהירות עצומה. (various references)

Hungarian		nagyon (badly, bally, bloody, covetous, ever so much, exceedingly, greatly, have one's nerves on edge, heavily, highly, immensely, jolly, jolly well, like hell, mightily, most, much, much to be desired, passing, pretty, quite, real, right, severely, sorely, thundering, to be broke for sg, to be down with a cold, to be in a fine way about sg, to be rejoiced at sg, to be rejoiced by sg, to feel used up, to get to look very slack, to take pains to do sg, to think the world of sy, to want sg badly, too, very, very much, very much indeed, wondrous), mint az õrült, õrültként. (various references)

Indonesian		gila-gilaan (exessive, foolhardy, foolish, frantic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		物狂おしい (frantic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ものぐるおしい (frantic). (various references)

Pig Latin		ikelay admay

Russian		стремительно (at full pelt, like anything, rashly, scurrilously), как угорелый, как безумный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kao lud. (various references)

Spanish		como loco. (various references)

Swedish		som en galning, som en dåre. (various references)

Thai		ยุ่งไม่หยุด (tap dance like mad). (various references)

Turkish		deli gibi (like a man possessed, like blazes, madly), çılgınca (far out, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, tearing, wild). (various references)

Ukranian		як скажений, як шалений. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-k-l-m"
	-1 letter: mailed, medial, milked.
	-2 letters: ailed, aimed, alike, amide, email, ideal, kelim, laked, lamed, liked, limed, maile, medal, media, miked.
	-3 letters: aide, alme, amid, amie, dale, dame, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, dike, dime, idea, idem, idle, ilea, ilka, kadi, kail, kale, kame, kami, lade, laid, lake, lame, lead, leak, lied, like, lima, lime.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-k-l-m"
	+2 letters: dreamlike.
	+4 letters: blackmailed, multitasked.
	+5 letters: daydreamlike, holidaymaker, multitracked.
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