craze
Use Craze in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to derange or impair the mind of; make insane: He was crazed by jealousy.
2.
to make small cracks on the surface of (a ceramic glaze, paint, or the like); crackle.
3.
British Dialect. to crack.
4.
Archaic. to weaken; impair: to craze one's health.
5.
Obsolete. to break; shatter.
verb (used without object)
6.
to become insane; go mad.
7.
to become minutely cracked, as a ceramic glaze; crackle.
8.
Metallurgy.
a.
(of a case-hardened object) to develop reticulated surface markings; worm.
b.
(of an ingot) to develop an alligator skin as a result of being teemed into an old and worn mold.
9.
Archaic. to fall to pieces; break.
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noun
10.
a popular or widespread fad, fashion, etc.; mania: the newest dance craze.
11.
insanity; an insane condition.
12.
a minute crack or pattern of cracks in the glaze of a ceramic object.
13.
Obsolete. flaw; defect.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English crasen to crush < Scandinavian; compare Swedish, Norwegian krasa to shatter, crush
1325–75; Middle English crasen to crush < Scandinavian; compare Swedish, Norwegian krasa to shatter, crush
Synonyms
10. vogue, mode.
10. vogue, mode.
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craze (kreɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a short-lived current fashion |
| 2. | a wild or exaggerated enthusiasm: a craze for chestnuts |
| 3. | mental disturbance; insanity |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to make or become mad |
| 5. | ceramics, metallurgy to develop or cause to develop a fine network of cracks |
| 6. | archaic, dialect or (Brit) (tr) to break |
| 7. | archaic (tr) to weaken |
| [C14 (in the sense: to break, shatter): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish krasa to shatter, ultimately of imitative origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
craze
mid-14c., probably from O.N. *krasa "shatter," perhaps via an O.Fr. form. Originally "to shatter;" now-obsolete metaphoric use for "break down in health" (late 15c.) led to noun sense of "mental breakdown." Extension to "mania, fad," is first recorded 1813. Original sense preserved in crazy quilt pattern.
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Example sentences
Given the new craze, it's a pleasure to have artists who are as easy on the eye as on the ear.
Regulators beware, unless you are part of this craze.
About a century ago, a new craze gripped the country's health conscious: mastication.
With all these uses, lots of armed services are getting in on the remote turret craze.
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