Craze
Contents
English
Noun
Craze (plural Crazes)- Craziness; insanity.
- A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
- A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
Verb
Craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)
- 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.
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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Adjectives
fashionable; dull; amusement; midsummer; newest; freakish; passing; temporary.
Verbs
adopt—; denounce—; despise-—; develop into—; fancy—; follow—; ignore—; in¬augurate—; overcome—; succumb to—; —affects; —attracts ; —dies ; —fades; — flashes; —seizes; —spreads.
Thesaurus
abandon, abrade, abrasion, band, bar, bark, belt, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bloody, boutade, brainstorm, break, bug, bulla, burn, capriccio, caprice, chafe, check, chic, chip, cicatrix, cicatrize, claw, comedo, conceit, concussion, crack, crackle, crank, crater, crazy fancy, crazy idea, crotchet, cry, cut, deface, defacement, defect, deform, deformation, deformity, delirium, dement, derange, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, distract, drive insane, drive mad, ecstasy, enthusiasm, enthusiasticalness, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, fascination, fashion, fault, fever, fire and fury, flash burn, flaw, flimflam, fool notion, fracture, fray, frazzle, freak, freakish inspiration, freckle, frenzy, fret, furor, furore, fury, gall, gash, harebrained idea, hemangioma, hickey, humor, hurt, hysteria, incise, incision, infatuation, injure, injury, intoxication, keloid, kink, lacerate, laceration, last word, lentigo, lesion, list, mad, madden, madness, maggot, maim, make mad, make mincemeat of, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, mar, maul, megrim, milium, mole, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, needle scar, nevus, notion, novelty, obsession, orgasm, orgy, passing fancy, passion, pierce, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, puncture, pustule, quirk, rage, rapture, ravishment, rend, rent, rift, rip, run, rupture, savage, scab, scald, scar, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, sebaceous cyst, second-degree burn, send mad, shatter, skin, slash, slit, sore, split, sprain, stab, stab wound, stick, strain, strawberry mark, streak, streaking, stria, striation, striature, striga, striola, stripe, striping, sty, style, tear, tearing passion, thing, third-degree burn, towering rage, toy, track, transport, trauma, traumatize, trend, twist, unbalance, unhinge, vagary, verruca, vesicle, vogue, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whitehead, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrinkle
Etymology
From Middle English crasen (“crush", "craze”). See crase
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪz
