CRAZED

crazed, deranged, half-crazed

(adjective) driven insane

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

crazed (comparative more crazed, superlative most crazed)

Maddened; driven insane.

Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain).

Verb

crazed

simple past tense and past participle of craze

Anagrams

• Zed-car

Source: Wiktionary

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CRAZE

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

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