'Craze' definitions:
Definition of 'craze'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
noun
noun
A fine crack in a glaze or other surface
verb
Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind [syn: madden, craze]
verb
Develop a fine network of cracks; "Crazed ceramics"
Definition of 'Craze'
From: GCIDE
- Craze \Craze\, v. i.
- 1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. [1913 Webster]
- She would weep and he would craze. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Craze'
From: GCIDE
- Craze \Craze\, n.
- 1. Craziness; insanity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. [1913 Webster]
- It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Various crazes concerning health and disease. --W. Pater. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Craze'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane. [1913 Webster]
- Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. --Tilloston. [1913 Webster]
- Grief hath crazed my wits. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'craze'
From: Moby 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