half-mad

There was Lydia, a half-mad, matronly Portuguese divorcee with a teenage daughter.

Ludovico Sforza, the patron of the lavish Milanese Renaissance, would die, half-mad, in a French dungeon.

Saul, the first king of Israel, ended his reign in defeat, half-mad and disgraced, replaced by the upstart David.

Indeed, it drove them both half-mad.

Ruva wasn’t ill, but she was half-mad with fear and grief.