craze

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪz

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English crasen (“‘crush", "craze’”). See crase

[edit] Noun

craze (plural crazes)

1. Craziness; insanity.
2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

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[edit] Verb

to craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)

1. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
4. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.