craze
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
Noun
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.
Derived terms
Translations
temporary passion
crack in ceramics
Verb
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- (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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.
- 1820, John Keats, “Robin Hood”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, 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.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (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
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to be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane
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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
- ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
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