craze
(noun) a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage
(noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; “he always follows the latest fads”; “it was all the rage that season”
craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria
(noun) state of violent mental agitation
craze
(verb) develop a fine network of cracks; “Crazed ceramics”
madden, craze
(verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one’s mind
Source: WordNet® 3.1
craze (plural crazes)
(archaic) craziness; insanity.
A strong habitual desire or fancy.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
(ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)
(archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
(transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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Source: Wiktionary
Craze (krz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crazed (krzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.] Etym: [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl, to break to pieces, F. to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]
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, v. i.
1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as She would weep and he would craze. Keats.
2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
