Craze

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed; make insane.
  • v. To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
  • verb-intransitive. To become mentally deranged or obsessed; go insane.
  • verb-intransitive. To become covered with fine cracks.
  • n. A short-lived popular fashion; a fad.
  • n. A fine crack in a surface or glaze.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Craziness; insanity.
  • n. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  • n. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
  • v. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • v. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • v. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • v. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • v. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • v. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • v. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • verb-intransitive. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • verb-intransitive. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
  • n. Craziness; insanity.
  • n. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  • n. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
  • n. A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. A crack in the glaze of pottery; a flaw or defect in general.
  • n. Insanity; craziness; any degree of mental derangement.
  • n. An inordinate desire or longing; a passion.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
  • v. develop a fine network of cracks
  • n. state of violent mental agitation
  • n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
  • n. a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
  • Verb Form
    crazed    crazes    crazing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    crack    fashion   
    Hyponym
    derange    unbalance   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    weaken    impair    rave    craziness    insanity    crotchet    fad    derange    derangement    crack   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blaise    Blase    Chevrolets    Hayes    Hays    Lyonnais    Malays    Mays    Polonaise    Res   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fad    mania    obsession