drive someone crazy

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Verb

drive someone crazy (third-person singular simple present drives someone crazy, present participle driving someone crazy, simple past drove someone crazy, past participle driven someone crazy)

(informal, idiomatic) to cause someone to become insane
(informal, idiomatic) to annoy or irritate
- 2007, Biden, Joe, Promises to Keep‎, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, LCCN 2007019603, OCLC 1262796254, page 110:
  Jesse Helms, the Republican from North Carolina, drove me crazy at first.
(informal, idiomatic) to cause to be infatuated

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cause insanity

Catalan: embogir (ca)
Esperanto: frenezigi
Greek:
Ancient: ἐκμαίνω (ekmaínō)
Hebrew: שִׁגֵּעַ‎
Ladino: tresalir, enlokeser
Latin: dēmentō
Portuguese: enlouquecer (pt)
Spanish: alocar (es), enloquecer (es), rayarse (es)
Swedish: driva någon till vansinne
Turkish: çıldırtmak (tr)
Ukrainian: зводити з розуму impf (zvodyty z rozumu), звести з розуму pf (zvesty z rozumu)

annoy

Hungarian: az őrületbe kerget
Portuguese: enlouquecer (pt), deixar louco
Spanish: rayarse (es), volver (es) loco (es), enloquecer (es), traer de cabeza, llevar (es) loco (es)
Swedish: driva någon till vansinne

cause to be infatuated

Spanish: enloquecer (es)

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