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Craze   /kreɪz/   Listen
noun
Craze  n.  
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."
3.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze. "Various crazes concerning health and disease."
4.
(Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.


verb
Craze  v. t.  (past & past part. crazed; pres. part. crazing)  
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."
2.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. (Obs.) "Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs."
3.
To derange the intellect of; to render insane. "Any man... that is crazed and out of his wits." "Grief hath crazed my wits."


Craze  v. i.  
1.
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. "She would weep and he would craze."
2.
To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.





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"Craze" Quotes from Famous Books



... sense, that I loathe America. It is a country to be used for the making of wealth, but it is not a country to be loved. It might have been the most lovable Father-and-Mother-Land on the globe if nobler men had lived long enough in it to rescue its people from the degrading Dollar-craze. But now, well!—those who make fortunes there leave it as soon as they can, shaking its dust off their feet and striving to forget that they ever experienced its incalculable greed, vice, cunning, and general rascality. There are plenty of decent folk in America, of course, ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... use of hoping for a decadence of the craze for historical romances so long as the public is fed on books like this? Such a story has zest for the most jaded palate; nay, it can hold the interest even of a book reviewer. From the first page to the last there is not a moment when one's desire to finish the book ...
— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman
... and what not. High Anglican, too—he'll be a bishop one of these days, if money doesn't make him lazy. He's inside, dancing with delight in front of your chancel-screen—or, rather, the remains of it. Church architecture is his craze just now— that and Church History. Between ourselves"—Sir Harry glanced over his shoulder—"he has a bee or two in his bonnet; but that's as it should be. Every lad at his age wants to eat up ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... bishop! Why, though a Christian, in common with many of his friends and also with his brother, he had never even been baptized, still less had he studied any of the things a bishop ought to know. Oh! it was impossible. It was only a moment's craze, and would be forgotten as soon as he was out of sight; so he stole away at night and hid himself, intending to escape to another city. But on his way he was recognised by a man who had once pleaded a cause before him. A crowd speedily collected, and he was carried by the ...
— The Red Book of Heroes • Leonora Blanche Lang
... she said; he would be able to work in a day or two; he would be quite well but for his craze about the ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy


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