craze

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪz

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.

Translations

temporary passion

Bulgarian: мания (bg) f. Finnish: villitys (fi) French: engouement (fr)

Hebrew: שיגעון (shiga'on) m. Swedish: fluga (sv) c., dille (sv) n., mani (sv) c.

Verb

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.

Translations

To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit

To derange the intellect of; to render insane

To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane

Italian: impazzire (it)

to break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder — see crase

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Polish: popękać (pl)