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craze.

A strong habitual desire or fancy.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɹeɪz/

  1. A strong habitual desire or fancy.

  2. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.

  3. A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

  4. Craziness; insanity.

    archaic
Where this word comes from

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”).

verb/kɹeɪz/

  1. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

    archaic

  2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

  3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

  4. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.

    archaic · intransitive · transitive

  5. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

    intransitive · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”).

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