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craze - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed.
- intransitive verb To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
- intransitive verb To become mentally deranged or obsessed.
- intransitive verb To become covered with fine cracks.
- noun A short-lived popular fashion; a fad.
- noun A fine crack in a surface or glaze.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crack in the glaze of pottery; a flaw or defect in general.
- noun Insanity; craziness; any degree of mental derangement.
- noun An inordinate desire or longing; a passion.
- noun An unreasoning or capricious liking or affectation of liking, more or less sudden and temporary, and usually shared by a number of persons, especially in society, for something particular, uncommon, peculiar, or curious; a passing whim: as, a craze for old furniture, or for rare coins or heraldry.
- To break; burst; break in pieces.
- To crack or split; open in slight cracks or chinks; crackle; specifically, in pottery, to separate or peel off from the body: said of the glaze. See
crazing , 2. - To become crazy or insane; become shattered in intellect; break down.
- To break; break in pieces; crush: as, to
craze tin. - To make small cracks in; produce a flaw or flaws in, literally or figuratively.
- To disorder; confuse; weaken; impair the natural force or energy of.
- To derange the intellect of; dement; render insane; make crazy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
- intransitive verb To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
- transitive verb To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See
crase . - transitive verb obsolete To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- transitive verb To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
- noun Craziness; insanity.
- noun A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
- noun A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
- noun (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Craziness; insanity.
- noun A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
- noun A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
- verb To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- verb To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
- verb To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
- verb transitive, intransitive, archaic To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See
crase . - verb transitive, intransitive To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
- verb develop a fine network of cracks
- noun state of violent mental agitation
- noun an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- noun a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English crasen, to shatter, of Scandinavian origin.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English crasen ("to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze"), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”). Cognate with Danish krase ("to crack, crackle"), Swedish krasa ("to crack, crackle"), Norwegian krasa ("to shatter, crush"), Icelandic krasa ("to crackle").
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Examples
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But even as he was forcefully making his point, Wilson was trapped in an “I say I hate even as I fervently embrace” relationship with the word craze.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But even as he was forcefully making his point, Wilson was trapped in an “I say I hate even as I fervently embrace” relationship with the word craze.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Gladwell's frustration with the social media craze is apparent as he assembles and then reacts to a list of over-hyped quotes and accolades for the infant platforms.
George Weiner: Malcolm Gladwell: 9,999 Hours Shy George Weiner 2010
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Gladwell's frustration with the social media craze is apparent as he assembles and then reacts to a list of over-hyped quotes and accolades for the infant platforms.
George Weiner: Malcolm Gladwell: 9,999 Hours Shy George Weiner 2010
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Author Jeff Strand (who has not forgotten that the whole zombie-mania craze is at least partially my fault) has come up with a counter-attack to the seemingly endless wave of zombie mash-ups.
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Gladwell's frustration with the social media craze is apparent as he assembles and then reacts to a list of over-hyped quotes and accolades for the infant platforms.
George Weiner: Malcolm Gladwell: 9,999 Hours Shy George Weiner 2010
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Pasta craze is the next fried chicken/frozen yogurt/Pat LaFrieda burger/Asian sandwich craze?
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Gladwell's frustration with the social media craze is apparent as he assembles and then reacts to a list of over-hyped quotes and accolades for the infant platforms.
George Weiner: Malcolm Gladwell: 9,999 Hours Shy George Weiner 2010
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In Africa and elsewhere they made fun of what they called his craze for scribbling.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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Strict guidlines for this kind of craze is necessary IMO.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Has the world gone insane? 2006
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synonyms (229)
Words with the same meaning
- 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
- craziness
- crazy fancy
- crazy idea
- crotchet
- cry
- cut
- deface
- defacement
- defect
- deform
- deformation
- deformity
- delirium
- dement
- derange
- derangement
- 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
- impair
- incise
- incision
- infatuation
- injure
- injury
- insanity
- 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
- rave
- 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
- weaken
- weal
- welt
- wen
- whim
- whim-wham
- whimsy
- whitehead
- wound
- wounds immedicable
- wrench
- wrinkle
rhymes (123)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Blaise
- Blase
- Chevrolets
- Hayes
- Hays
- Lyonnais
- Malays
- Mays
- Polonaise
- Res
- Sais
- Shays
- ablaze
- allays
- amaze
- appraise
- arrays
- baize
- ballets
- bayes
- bays
- baze
- betrays
- blaize
- blase
- blaze
- bouquets
- braise
- brase
- buffets
- cabarets
- cabernets
- caches
- cafes
- chaise
- chalets
- claes
- clays
- cliches
- communiques
- conveys
- crase
- crays
- dais
- daise
- dase
- days
- daze
- decays
- defrays
- delays
- dismays
- dismutase
- displays
- dossiers
- essays
- faze
- filets
- frase
- gays
- gaze
- glaze
- grays
- graze
- hase
- hays
- haze
- heys
- jays
- kays
- lais
- lase
- lays
- leis
- leys
- lyonnaise
- maize
- malaise
- mase
- matinees
- mays
- maze
- morays
- nase
- nays
- obeys
- okays
- overplays
- pais
- parfaits
- pays
- phase
- phrase
- plays
- polonaise
- portrays
- praise
- prays
- preys
- purveys
- raise
- rase
- rays
- raze
- reappraise
- repays
- rephrase
- replays
- res
- sais
- shays
- sprays
- stays
- strays
- surveys
- sways
- todays
- trays
- urokinase
- wais
- ways
- weighs
- yeas
fbharjo commented on the word craze
craze was a craze of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s (see usage graph)
March 30, 2011