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noun

Craze n.

1.

Craziness; insanity.

2.

A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. "It was quite a craze with him (Burns) to have his Jean dressed genteelly."

3.

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze. "Various crazes concerning health and disease."

4.

(Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

verb

Craze v. t. (past & past part. crazed; pres. part. crazing)

1.

To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. "God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels."

2.

To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. (Obs.) "Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs."

3.

To derange the intellect of; to render insane. "Any man... that is crazed and out of his wits." "Grief hath crazed my wits."

Craze v. i.

1.

To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. "She would weep and he would craze."

2.

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

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Etymology of 'Craze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Craze" Quotes from Famous Books

... the original Brotherhood in the middle of the nineteenth century. By their help, and that of the group to which they belong, a new artistic fashion is being established, a fashion of a novel sort, for its hold upon the public is a result not of some irrational popular craze, but of the fascinating arguments which are put into visible shape by ...

— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

... enough to consider sentiment, and I know you well enough to understand what you mean by pitching into me this way. But the craze Sally's been in over this old place seems to me a thing out of all reason. What are we, a family of bank clerks and office boys, to shoulder a proposition like this? We can't think of moving out here and living in that barracks, and trying to make a living off the soil. Neither ...

— Strawberry Acres • Grace S. Richmond

... to me, however, that the art craze is one of the modern phases of woman's sexual life. When we were in Italy the great centers of the country were simply overrun with girls studying art, most of whom had very little talent, but who had mistaken ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... 'It was Emilio's craze,' she said abruptly. 'He knew every animal on the place. In his regiment they called him the "vet.," because he was always patching up the sick and broken mules. One of his last messages to me was about an old horse. He taught me a few things—and ...

— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... marriage to Rita. This proposal she had not rejected outright; she had pleaded time for consideration. Monte Irvin was away, and Rita secretly hoped that on his return he would declare himself. Meanwhile she indulged in every new craze which became fashionable among her associates. A chandu party took place at the American's flat in Duke Street, and Rita, who had been invited, and who had consented to go with Sir Lucien Pyne, met there for the first time the woman variously ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

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