CRAZE

craze

Noun

  1. Craziness; insanity.
  2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

Verb

  1. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  4. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  5. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.


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