craze

craze
    n 1: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always
         follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
         [syn: {fad}, {craze}, {furor}, {furore}, {cult}, {rage}]
    2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: {craze}, {delirium},
       {frenzy}, {fury}, {hysteria}]
    3: a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
    v 1: cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind [syn: {madden},
         {craze}]
    2: develop a fine network of cracks; "Crazed ceramics"
    

Craze \Craze\, v. i.
   1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed;
      to rave; to become insane.
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            She would weep and he would craze.    --Keats.
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   2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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Craze \Craze\, n.
   1. Craziness; insanity.
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   2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
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            It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his
            Jean dressed genteelly.               --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.
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   3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new
      amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac
      craze; the [ae]sthetic craze.
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            Various crazes concerning health and disease. --W.
                                                  Pater.
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   4. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is
      caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular
      heat.
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Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crazed}
   (kr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crazing}.] [OE. crasen to break,
   fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle,
   sl[*a] i kras, to break to pieces, F. ['e]craser to crush,
   fr. the Scand. Cf. {Crash}.]
   1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See
      {Crase}.
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            God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And
            craze their chariot wheels.           --Milton.
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   2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]
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            Till length of years,
            And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. --Milton.
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   3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
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            Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
                                                  --Tilloston.
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            Grief hath crazed my wits.            --Shak.
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223 Moby Thesaurus words for "craze":
      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