go mad

phrase

1

: to become mentally ill

Sometimes I think the whole world has gone mad!

He went mad from years alone in the jungle.

2

: to act in a way that is out of control : to act wildly

The crowd went mad when the team won the championship.

Examples of go mad in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Why did the entire world go mad for a grinning rabbit-gremlin collectible from China? — Wired, Wired News, 21 Jan. 2026

The country doesn't go mad all at once. — Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Dec. 2025

True, Ophelia does go mad in the play, and Swift has already expressed her fondness for madwomen. — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025

Thus unleashed, my childhood self would go mad with unchecked power, petulantly turning dials just to see what happened to the citizens in my virtual ant farm. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025

This was before the Beatles, so the people used to just go mad. — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024

The one-upping stage magicians of The Prestige, who go mad trying to best one another, are distinctly Nolanish figures. — WIRED, 24 July 2023

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