craze
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.[1]
Cognate with Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
craze (plural crazes)
- (archaic) craziness; insanity.
- A strong habitual desire or fancy.
- A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
- 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts
- Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.
- 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts
- (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
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Translations[edit]
temporary passion
crack in ceramics
Verb[edit]
craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)
- (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 571–572, page 39:
- till length of years
And ſedentary numneſs craze my limbs
- To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
- Grief hath crazed my wits.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
- 1820, John Keats, “Robin Hood”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Printed [by Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 927360557, page 135:
- And if Robin should be cast
Sudden from his turfed grave,
And if Marian should have
Once again her forest days,
She would weep and he would craze: [...]
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 1100–1101:
- God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt
And craze thir Chariot wheels:
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Translations[edit]
to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit
to derange the intellect of; to render insane
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to be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane
to break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder — see crase
to crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery
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References[edit]
- ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
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