craze Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
    rage; fad; furore; cult; furor.
    • he always follows the latest fads
    • it was all the rage that season
  2. noun state of violent mental agitation
    fury; delirium; frenzy; hysteria.
  3. noun a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
  4. verb cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
    madden.
  5. verb develop a fine network of cracks
    • Crazed ceramics

WordNet

Craze transitive verb
Etymology
OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl i kras, to break to pieces, F. craser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Crazed present participle & verbal noun Crazing
Definitions
  1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
    God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.
  2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. Obs.
    Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. Milton.
  3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
    Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. Tilloston.
    Grief hath crazed my wits. Shak.
Craze intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as e that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
    She would weep and he would craze. Keats.
  2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Craze noun
Definitions
  1. Craziness; insanity.
  2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
    It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.
  3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze.
    Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

Webster 1913