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.