Lexic.us

Definition of Craze

1. Verb. Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind.

2. Noun. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal. "It was all the rage that season"

3. Verb. Develop a fine network of cracks. "Crazed ceramics"

4. Noun. State of violent mental agitation.

5. Noun. A fine crack in a glaze or other surface.

Definition of Craze

1. v. t. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

2. v. i. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

3. n. Craziness; insanity.

4. n. A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

Definition of Craze

1. Noun. Craziness; insanity. ¹

2. Noun. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. ¹

3. Noun. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze. ¹

4. Verb. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. ¹

5. Verb. To derange the intellect of; to render insane. ¹

6. Verb. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive intransitive archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Craze

1. to make insane [v CRAZED, CRAZING, CRAZES] - See also: insane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Craze

crayfishers crayfishery crayfishes crayon crayoned crayoner crayoners crayoning crayonist crayonists

crayonlike crayons crays craythur craytur crazed crazedly crazedness crazes crazier

crazies craziest crazily craziness crazinesses crazing crazy crazy-paving

Literary usage of Craze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"Such was the craze that the phantom town projectors actually invaded the East and sold their lots in New York and Boston. Never in the history of our ..."

2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"Inasmuch as the most obvious and indubitable, as well as universal, cause of the craze was the profound Renaissance The craze admiration for the classics, ..."

3. The American Dramatist by Montrose Jonas Moses (1917)
"CHAPTER XIX THE craze FOR LITTLE THEATRES THE craze for Little Theatres, which has developed to such extensive proportions throughout this country in the ..."

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